Perspecta 55 - Futures Index

A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain. Architecture is fundamentally a practice of predicting the future. In designing spaces that will endure for decades, architects must reconcile their visions of future living with predicted economic, political, and environmental futures. Thus, whereas utopian architects of the past each sought to impose a singular future through visionary architectural form, architects of today must reconcile between the multiple futures projected by hired specialists, live modeling software, climate change prognoses, and financial markets. In investigating and testing practices of future prediction, Designers: Kyla Arsadjaja and Julia Schäfer are graduates of the Yale School of Art. Contributors: Orit Halpern, Matthew Soules, William Deringer, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Jack Hanly, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Gökçe Günel, Davy Knittle, Adam Bobbette, Savannah Cox, Stephen Collier, Andrew Lakoff, Lindsay Thomas, Ross Exo Adams, Amelyn Ng, Justin Joque, Peter Polack, and Daniela Fabricius...

Product details

• Authors: Lani Barry, Li, Jeffrey Liu, Nicholas Miller, Matthew Wagstaffe, Ethan Zisson
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780262545464
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54546-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 310 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General