Screen/Print #57: Dora Epstein Jones On Re-centering 'the Building' in Architectural Discourse

2017-06-23T10:30:00-04:00

“We forgot about buildings,” claims Dora Epstein Jones in this provocative essay for The Building, a new volume edited by José Aragüez and published by Lars Müller, featured here as part of Archinect’s recurring series Screen/Print.

Book Review: "The City in the City—Berlin: A Green Archipelago. A manifesto"

2014-07-31T09:07:00-04:00

When its first seeds were presented in 1977, Berlin: A Green Archipelago was a quiet, prescient manifesto. Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of colleagues at Cornell University deviated from the intellectual tenets of current reconstruction efforts, seen in the post-war development of European cities, to propose a new model for the "shrinking city". The text's idea of a polycentric urban system really took hold in the 1990s, as urban planning discourse turned towards socioeconomic considerations of ebbing and flowing growth.

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Screen/Print #57: Dora Epstein Jones On Re-centering 'the Building' in Architectural Discourse

Book Review: "The City in the City—Berlin: A Green Archipelago. A manifesto"