Architecture & Micropolitics | Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture

Farshid Moussavi

ISBN 10: 3038601942 / ISBN 13: 9783038601944

Published by Park Books, 2022

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Architecture & Micropolitics | Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture | Farshid Moussavi | Taschenbuch | 588 S. | Englisch | 2022 | Park Books | EAN 9783038601944 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Carsten Schlieker, Postfach 20 21, 37010 Göttingen, info[at]gva-verlage[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture & Micropolitics | Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture
• Publisher: Park Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3038601942
• ISBN 13: 9783038601944
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 41W x 231H x 329D millimeters 41 millimeters width by 231 millimeters height by 329 millimeters depth
• Weight: 2427 grams
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Synopsis

The interaction of architecture and society, demonstrated through important buildings by Farshid Moussavi Architecture.

This timely book seeks to dispel two widely held misconceptions: first, that architects are no longer central to the making of buildings and, second, that design is a linear process which begins with a fully formed architectural vision. Architect Farshid Moussavi argues that the temporality of architecture provides day-to-day practice with the potential to generate change. She proposes that we abandon determinism and embrace chance events and the subjective factors that influence practice in order to ground buildings in the micropolitics of everyday life.

Using four buildings designed by FMA, Moussavi’s London-based practice, Architecture & Micropolitics shows how the rhizomatic nature of their design process is combined with diligent research and an openness to elements of chance to fuel creativity and bend rules that would generate a merely functional building.

A substantial essay by Farshid Moussavi and an afterword by the philosopher Jacques Rancičre are followed by detailed analyses of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland; Lot 19, the first new residential block to be built in the La Défense district of Paris in thirty years; the Folie Divine apartment building in Montpellier; and the Ismaili Center Houston, the first new building in the US which is dedicated to use by the Ismaili community. The book also features contributions by Ińaki Ábalos, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Irénée Scalbert.

Architecture & Micropolitics is recommended for any professional and academic library. It is a surprising book which will be of value to anyone who is interested in the relationship between architecture and society.

About the Authors

Farshid Moussavi, OBE, RA, is an architect, professor in practice of architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and former cofounder of Foreign Office Architects. She has published an influential series of books in conjunction with Harvard: The Function of Ornament, The Function of Form, and The Function of Style.

Ińaki Ábalos is founding principal of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Architects with offices in Boston, Madrid, and Shanghai. He is professor of architectural design and director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (LTPC) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and professor-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Irénée Scalbert is a French-born architect, historian, and critic based in London.