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BorderLine, the first publication in the "RIEAconcepts"-series, highlights a particularly relevant site in Europe: The town and harbor of Kraljevica, just south of Rijeka, Croatia, where failing ship-building industry and pollution from a large oil-refinery threaten both the ecology and the prospects of tourism. Drawing on the results of a workshop, BorderLine presents essays and projects by leading thinkers and architects such as Lebbeus Woods, Gabriela Seifert (Formalhaut Architects), Manuel Delanda (cultural philosopher), Aleksandra Wagner (sociologist, psychoanalyst), Heinz Foerster (biophysicist), Ekkehard Rehfeld (architect). Architectural projects and conceptual proposals by Lebbeus Woods, Peter Cook, Will Alsop, Per Kartredt, Masihiko Yendo, Guy Lafranchi, etc. create within rapidly evolving European and global landscapes.
List of contents
Summary:
Heinz von Foerster: On Constructing a Reality.- Manuel De Landa: Extensive Borderlines and Intensive Borderlines.- Tom Wiscombe: The Haptic Morphology of Tentacles.- Lebbeus Woods: Inside the Borderline.- Workshop Kraljevica.- Workshop Buenos Aires (La Boca).- Workshop Aarhus.- basin.architects: Invisible Architecture.- Aleksandra Wagner and Alexander Stein: The Trouble with Borders.
About the author
Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940, trained Architect, worked for Eero Saarinen (1964-1968). Theory and experimental projects since 1976. Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Institute of experimental Architecture, Europe (RIEA Europe). Has been a visiting Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union, SCI-Arc, Harvard and Columbia Universities.
