Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures, by Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi
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Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll and contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani, Public Natures is both monograph and projective manifesto and suggests a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature.
Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures, by Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi- Amazon Sales Rank: #89635 in Books
- Brand: Weiss, Marion/ Manfredi, Michael A./ Fowler, Justin (EDT)
- Published on: 2015-09-22
- Released on: 2015-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.88" h x 1.38" w x 7.88" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 376 pages
Review "With a thoughtful, farsighted approach rare in most of today's architectural offices, the firm has shown that the natural and the urban are running on parallel planes and are not opposites." -Surface"Weiss/Manfredi has embraced the scribbled slate of existing infrastructure and defunct industrial past to create innovative spaces that simultaneously merge and delineate." -Architectural Digest
About the Author Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi are the founders of the award-winning New York City-based firm WEISS/MANFREDI. Manfredi has been a Visiting Professor at both Cornell University and Harvard University, and Weiss is the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A potent synthesis of work and words By e While the description of this text calls it “both monograph and projective manifesto,” certainly no small claim, it gestures toward the rather impressive scope of material it contains. The book is comprised of four primary sections. The first begins with an essay by the architects—Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi—titled “Evolutionary Infrastructures,” which leads into spreads for five of their projects, each gathered under that theme. The second section, “Terms and Conditions” is a sort of lexicon of concepts that the architects see as central to their work, enriched with commentary from a roundtable discussion of prominent academics and practitioners (Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani) and moderated by Weiss, Manfredi and Justin Fowler. The third section contains spreads for five more W/M projects, prefaced by another essay from the architects, this one titled “Social Infrastructures.” And the final section, “Megaform and Public Natures,” consists of a transcribed discussion between Weiss, Manfredi, Fowler, and the historian and academic, Kenneth Frampton.With these varied and complementary sections, this text gives the reader a full and nuanced account of the collected works of Weiss/Manfredi as an ongoing intellectual project. The essays and discussions draw on a range of interesting historical and contemporary material—from 19th c. utopian visions of the city, to megastructures of the 60s, to projects from current practitioners like LTL, Field Operations, and Preston Scott Cohen. What emerges is W/M’s own conception of architectural work as ‘infrastructural,’ transgressing conventional disciplinary boundaries and operating at once within broader landscapes, the scale of the individual building, and the city at large. This particular conception of infrastructure is presented as one that seeks to synthesize a broad, and sometimes disparate, set of concerns—performing at the same time ecologically, socially, culturally, and aesthetically. About this, the authors state that “although infrastructure is often incorrectly perceived as hard and inflexible” they “see great potential for alternative strategies that structure more lateral, resilient, and pliable systems capable of hosting unpredictable uses and activities, absorbing cycles of flooding, accommodating variable traffic volumes, and generating cultural value.”While the project spreads (about 250 pages in total, dedicated to ten projects) certainly contain the glossy photographs and presentation drawings that one expects in any monograph, there is also much more. Each presented project includes ample process work (ranging from charcoal sketches to paper models), analytical drawings with overlaid diagrams explaining how the projects work, details extracted from CD sets, and photographs of construction in progress. And further, clear efforts have been made to show completed projects as thoroughly occupied, attempting to capture the ways they host “unpredictable uses.” Through all of this, projects are carefully presented so as to further develop and explain the “infrastructural” themes presented in the essays and discussions, and show how these ideas have informed and been materialized in the works themselves. It works, I think, quite clearly and effectively, helping the reader to a better understanding of both the architects' works and words.All in all, this is a thoughtfully composed and beautifully designed book, and one that offers a deep look into an impressive body of work by Weiss/Manfredi. I highly recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Love the book, love the work! By Andrea I’ve been a fan of Weiss/Manfredi for many years, especially the idea that their practice is not just architecture but landscape architecture and urbanism. The partners in the firm don’t just talk the talk, they walk the walk. (Though the thoughtful and well-argued essays in the book show that they talk the talk, too.)The list of projects includes all of the recent buildings that have opened to acclaim: the Olympic Sculpture Park, built on a reclaimed industrial site in Seattle; the park at Hunter’s Point, New York, poised on the edge of the East River; the Diana Center at Barnard College, New York, with a series of double-height spaces that climb through the building; and the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania, brilliant orange at the base and climbing high into the air.A word on the book itself: It’s so nice to have a book that isn’t awkward to look at and read. It’s big and chunky, but not bulky or heavy. The cover is gorgeous—an image of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (full of people!) printed on a cloth binding. Such a welcome change from the typical high-gloss book jacket with unpopulated building under a blinding blue sky. Imagine, architecture that actually enjoys an engagement with its audience!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Tremendous book! By P. Hoang This book is unique in that it succeeds in being both inclusive and expansive. It is inclusive in the depth and breadth of the projects by Weiss-Manfredi—in addition to the photographs, the entirety of their design process is described through conceptual sketches, analytical diagrams, architectural drawings and technical details. However, it is the expansive quality of the book that is most interesting because it seems to embody their architectural philosophy. The work of Weiss-Manfredi escapes easy categorization. They move with seeming ease between the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, landscape and infrastructure but also between the rigid design methodologies associated with form, program and ecology.The book is well organized into essays by the authors, rich documentation of their projects and a central section called “Terms and Conditions.” The essays and projects on their own are both thoughtful and provocative. However, the “Terms and Conditions” section highlights the expansive nature of their design thinking. It manifests a conversation between Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and a group of contributing architects and historians. This unique discussion is between the contributors’ interpretations of terms from modern architecture history, specifically the mega-form projects of late modernism. The conversation includes images of the contributors’ work, which is both uncommon as well as essential to understanding the important place that Weiss-Manfredi’s genre defying work occupies. This book is not your typical introspective architectural monograph. As with their projects, the book is a call for all architects to do more to reconnect the different strands of our built environment together and to our environments.
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