Agenda: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis? - Softcover

JDS Architects

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8496954986 ISBN 13: 9788496954984

Publisher: Actar, 2010

Synopsis

AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. Change, the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape. Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA i

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About the Author:

JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects is a multidisciplinary office that focuses on architecture and design, from large scale urban planning to furniture to design. The office is fuelled by talented designers and experienced architects who jointly develop projects from the early sketch to on-site supervision. Independent of scale, this outlines an approach that is affirmatively social in its outcome, enthusiastic in its ambition and professional in its method.

About this edition

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8496954986
• ISBN 13: 9788496954984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Benedict Clouette, Jesse Seegers, Julien De Smedt, Ryan Neiheiser