Description
Product ID: | 9781951541644 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CN |
Title: | Fulfilled |
Subtitle: | Architecture, Excess, and Desire |
Authors: | Author: Ashley Bigham |
Page Count: | 180 |
Subjects: | Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Individual architects and architectural firms, Architectural structure and design, Architecture: professional practice, Distribution and logistics management, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Individual architects & architectural firms, Architectural structure & design, Architecture: professional practice, Distribution & warehousing management, Urban & municipal planning |
Description: | Featuring contributions from more than a dozen contemporary architects, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire presents an unparalleled and multidisciplinary exploration into the ways tangible and intangible fulfilment have shaped modern architecture. Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon warehouses, the concept of fulfilment described the achievement of a desire - sometimes tangible, often psychological or spiritual. With the rapid growth of e-commerce, our understanding of fulfilment has evolved to reflect a seemingly endless cycle of desire and gratification - one whose continuity hinges on our willingness to overlook the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of our ever-increasing expectation of quick and efficient fulfilment. A closer look at fulfilment reveals a social, typological, formal, aesthetic, and economic practice constructed collectively through both digital and physical interactions. It is a cultural practice which evolves like a language, both universally transferable and contextually specific. As a symposium, exhibition, and now publication, this project aims to draw out these new arrangements, sticky relationships, and material by-products of cultural production and to ask again the age-old question, “What does it mean to be fulfilled?” Featuring new texts and visual work by more than a dozen contemporary architects: Ana Miljački – Boston, MA; Ang Li – Boston, MA; Ashley Bigham – Columbus, OH; Cristina Goberna Pesudo – Madrid, Spain; Curtis Roth – Columbus, OH; Jesse LeCavalier – Toronto, Canada; John McMorrough – Ann Arbor, MI; Keith Krumwiede – San Francisco, CA; Laida Aguirre – Ann Arbor, MI; Leigha Dennis – New York, NY; Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco – Barcelona, Spain; Michelle Chang – Boston, MA; Miles Gertler – Toronto, Canada; Mira Henry & Matthew Au (Current Interests) – Los Angeles, CA |
Imprint Name: | Oro Editions |
Publisher Name: | Oro Editions |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-08-09 |