MCHAP Book One
The Americas
Published on 22. February 2022
444 pages
978-1-63840-846-8 (ISBN)
Description
MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN - Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radic, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize recognizing the best built works in the Americas from 2000 through 2013.
The book includes contributions from the inaugural MCHAP jury (IITAC Dean Wiel Arets, Kenneth Frampton, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Dominique Perrault, Sarah Whiting) as well as essays by Fabrizio Gallanti, Pedro Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Felipe Correa, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Horacio Torrent, Molly Wright Steenson, Mimi Zeiger.
Co-published with IITAC Press.
The book includes contributions from the inaugural MCHAP jury (IITAC Dean Wiel Arets, Kenneth Frampton, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Dominique Perrault, Sarah Whiting) as well as essays by Fabrizio Gallanti, Pedro Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Felipe Correa, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Horacio Torrent, Molly Wright Steenson, Mimi Zeiger.
Co-published with IITAC Press.
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Content
- Intro
- THE AMERICAS: A WONDERFUL WORLD
- WHAT'S IN A NAME?
- MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
- From Symbolism to Operative Diagram: Three Stops Along an Architecture of Mobility Infrastructure
- Herzog and de Meuron: 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami, USA
- Anthology
- IN THE PLACE OF THE PUBLIC
- AUTOPIA (1971)
- THE NINE AGES OF TRANSPORT (2004)
- AIRSPACES (2001)
- PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ENDEAVORS
- Our Secular Communion: In Search of Civic Architecture in the City of Angels
- Steven Holl: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
- Anthology
- 49 CAPITOLS
- THE WHITNEY'S BOLD NEW LOOK (1966)
- BOSTON'S NEW CITY HALL (1969)
- INAUGURATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOLIDARITY (1972)
- HIGH LINE (2011)
- THE GETTY (1971)
- ENCYCLOPEDIC STORAGE
- Processing the Library
- OMA + Rex: Seattle Public Library, Seattle, USA
- Anthology
- COLD STORAGE
- GOOGLE AND THE FUTURE OF BOOKS (2009)
- LIBRARY AS INFRASTRUCTURE (2014)
- REINVENTING THE LIBRARY (2015)
- TOOLBOXES
- The North, the South, and the No-Longer
- Smiljan Radic: Mestizo Restaurant
- Anthology
- PICTURES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN BRAZIL, '50s-'60s
- THE TURNING POINT OF BUILDING (1959)
- WHY PREFABRICATION FAILS (2002)
- LE CORBUSIER AND IMPERIALISM (1951)
- CULT AND TERRITORY
- The Church Formerly Known As the Crystal Cathedral
- Cristián Undurraga: Retreat Chapel
- Auco, Chile
- Anthology
- PILGRIM ROUTE
- CAMPFIRES IN THE WILDERNESS (1987)
- THE HUTTERITES (1972)
- TRADITION HOUR (1995)
- DENSITIES
- Vertical Density
- Rafael Iglesia: Altamira Tower, Rosario, Argentina
- Anthology
- EXPANSION 1, LIMA
- THE SQUATTER SETTLEMENT: AN ARCHITECTURE THAT WORKS (1968)
- VERTICALITY AND HORIZONTALITY (2010)
- ENCOUNTERS
- The Olympic Connection
- Álvaro Siza: Fundaçao Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Anthology
- TRAVEL PICTURES
- PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE CORDILLERAS AND MONUMENTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS (1816)
- BRAZILIAN COROLLARY...WHICH IS ALSO URUGUAYAN (1929)
- LETTERS BETWEEN RICHARD NEUTRA AND RUDOLPH M. SCHINDLER
- THE EXILES (1990)
- List of Projects MCHAP
- Biographies
- Bibliography
- Picture and text credits of the anthologies
