Designing the Rural
A Global Countryside in Flux
Published on 22. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-118-95105-7 (ISBN)
Description
The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of exploration.
Contributors: Neil Brenner, Christiane Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Sandra Parvu, Cole Roskam, Grahame Shane, Deane Simpson, and Milica Topalovic and Bas Princen
Architects: Anders Abraham, Joshua Bolchover and John Lin (Rural Urban Framework), Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene (Piovenefabi), Rainer Hehl, Stephan Petermann (OMA), Huang Sheng Yuan (FieldOffice), and Sandeep Virmani (Hunnarshala)
Reviews / Votes
"Yet again the AD team have produced a fascinating, throught-provoking, deep delve into the trends that are changing our environment and our ways of working." (theNBS.com, August 2016)More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
582 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-95105-7 (9781118951057)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
03/2017
Academy Press
€29.99
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Persons
Joshua Bolchover is an urban researcher, academic and architectural designer. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on understanding urban transformation in China. He exhibited his work, 'Rural Urban Ecology' at the Venice Biennale 2010. He is the author with John Lin of Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside (Birkhauser), 2014.
John Lin is an architect based in Hong Kong and currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His current projects include the design of several school buildings, a village community centre, a hospital and a sustainable house prototype in China. He was the overall winner of the Architectural Review's House Award in 2012 for his "House For All Seasons" a rural house in Shaanxi Province, China.
Christiane Lange is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong. She teaches Urban Design in the Bachelor and Master Program and works in the Community Project Workshop of the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the urbanization process of developing countries.
Content
About the Guest-Editors 5 Introduction: Where is the Rural in an Urban World? 6
Inventing the Rural: A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside 14
Settling the Nomads: Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 20
Indefinitely Intermediate: Processes of Ruralisation in Chisinau, Moldova 28
Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland: Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region 34
Palm Oil: A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape 42
Notes on Villages as a Global Condition 48
Fieldoffice Architects In Situ: Reflecting on the Rural-Urban Mix in Yilan, Taiwan 58
In the Hands of the People: Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India 66
Designing for an Uncertain Future: Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China 72
The Hunstad Code: Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town 78
The Villages, Florida: Small-town Metropolitanism and the 'Middle of Nowhere' 86
New Territories: Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside - The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong 92
The Toshka Project: Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics and Territory in Egypt 98
Best of Both Worlds: Lamenting Our Path to the Future 106
Durana, Albania: A Field of Possibilities 114
The Hinterland, Urbanised? 118
Counterpoint: Don't Waste Your Time in the Countryside 128
Contributors 134
Inventing the Rural: A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside 14
Settling the Nomads: Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 20
Indefinitely Intermediate: Processes of Ruralisation in Chisinau, Moldova 28
Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland: Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region 34
Palm Oil: A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape 42
Notes on Villages as a Global Condition 48
Fieldoffice Architects In Situ: Reflecting on the Rural-Urban Mix in Yilan, Taiwan 58
In the Hands of the People: Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India 66
Designing for an Uncertain Future: Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China 72
The Hunstad Code: Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town 78
The Villages, Florida: Small-town Metropolitanism and the 'Middle of Nowhere' 86
New Territories: Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside - The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong 92
The Toshka Project: Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics and Territory in Egypt 98
Best of Both Worlds: Lamenting Our Path to the Future 106
Durana, Albania: A Field of Possibilities 114
The Hinterland, Urbanised? 118
Counterpoint: Don't Waste Your Time in the Countryside 128
Contributors 134