2024-12-26T08:05:34-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149994170/screen-print-51-moving-from-the-ordinary-to-the-extraordinary-with-the-generic-sublime Nicholas Korody 2017-02-28T17:52:00-05:00 >2017-02-28T17:52:47-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hr/hrmqgu02ueqfsnry.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Luxury condominiums, airport hubs, resort complexes, gated communities, satellite cities &mdash; these are among the &ldquo;extra-large&rdquo; architectural typologies that have proliferated globally in recent years. In <em><a href="http://actar.com/thegenericsublime/" target="_blank">The Generic Sublime: Organizational Models for Global Architecture</a></em><em>, </em>a new book edited by Ciro Najle and co-published by Actar and the <a href="http://archinect.com/harvard" target="_blank">Harvard University Graduate School of Design</a>, a series of essays explores these dominating edifices, investigating how the generic &ldquo;holds the potential to become its very opposite: the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary&rdquo;.</p>