A mapping of infrastructures shaping contemporary life.
Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by
infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure
has ceased to support its urban plans, subordinating architecture
to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is
increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static
structures avoid being superfluous by joining this system as
temporary containers for people, objects, and capital. This
provocative collection of photography, essays, and maps looks at
infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city and
affecting change through architecture.
A project by the Network Architecture Lab and the LA Forum for
Architecture & Urban Design featuring: Lane Barden, Barry
Lehrman, David Fletcher, Frank Ruchala, Matt Coolidge, CLUI,
Warren Techentin, Ted Kane, Rick Miller, Roger Sherman, Deborah
Richmond, Robert Sumrell. Kazys Varnelis, directs the Network
Architecture Lab (Columbia University) and the AUDC collective.

EDITOR Kazys Varnelis

LANGUAGES
English [978-84-96954-25-0]

PRICE US$ 42

ILLUSTRATIONS Color

PAGES 240

COVER Soft

SIZE 16,5 x 22 cm

PUBLICATION DATE June 2008

PUBLISHED BY ACTAR

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