I recently got the chance to review Pamphlet Architecture Coupling / Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism. From bringing a terminal lake back to life and using landfills as an open space connectors to actively anticipating the future of the Caspian Sea’s oil rig field and turning Canada’s northern regions into a more active destination, this work explores ways infrastructures can become soft multivalent systems instead of the hard systems we see today. This challenges the antiquated ideas of buildings simply being geometric formal objects. With the interconnected world, buildings themselves have become infrastructural to the larger systems. Keller Easterling states, “No longer simply what is hidden or beneath another urban structure, many infrastructures are the urban formula, the very parameters of global urbanism.”
Table of Contents following the break.
Table of Contents 4 Urbanism After Form Charles Waldheim 6 Formatting Contingency InfraNet / Lateral Office 10 Fresh Field Keller Easterling
14 Water Ecologies/Economics
24 Land Reservations
32 Re-Rigging
42 The Architectural Reconstruction of Geography David Gissen
46 Next North
56 Wiring Runways
66 Icelink 76 Afterword: Figuring It Out 79 Acknowledgements
Produced by: Infranet Lab /Lateral Office; Neeraj Bhatia / Maya Przybylski / Lola Sheppard / Mason White Text: Keller Easterling / David Gissen / Christopher Hight / Charles Waldheim Editor: Becca Casbon Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-56898-985-3
