
Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling
Princeton Architectural Press
Published on 31. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-56898-985-3 (ISBN)
Description
Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring projects: a high-speed rail system across the Bering Strait that also collects freshwater from the seasonal iceshelf; a decommissioned airport transformed into a geothermal data farm and agriculture site; thickening on/off ramps around "big box" stores into circular parking lots; a call toinclude landfills in the list of preserved open spaces; and a saline terminal lake turned into a water farm, recreational retreat, and habitat haven. Coupling argues that infrastructures behave as artificially maintained natural systems. Rather than a New Deal approach of massive engineering or iconic infrastructure, Coupling employs adaptable, responsive, small-scale interventions whose impacts are global in scale."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56898-985-3 (9781568989853)
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Lab Lateral Office InfraNet
Pamphlet Architecture 30
Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism
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07/2013
Princeton Architectural Press
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