Since the turn of the century, the discipline of architecture has focused its attention intently on documenting the contemporary urban condition. Each city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, interrogated as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects.
Registros de lo ordinario articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and the genre of books derived from it, while also forming part of the project Enrique Walker compiled in the book Lo ordinario (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2010). Organized around conversations with the authors of three foundational texts that document the city—Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo—this volume traces the history of these “books about cities” by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they formulated, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also challenge the assumptions underlying this practice and question whether, in its ubiquity, it still offers a space of opportunity.
- Conversations with Enrique Walker:
— Rem Koolhaas
— Denise Scott-Brown
— Yoshiharu Tsukamoto - Retroactive Manifestos | Enrique Walker
