Screen/Print #51: Moving from the Ordinary to the Extraordinary with "The Generic Sublime"

2017-02-28T17:52:00-05:00

Luxury condominiums, airport hubs, resort complexes, gated communities, satellite cities — these are among the “extra-large” architectural typologies that have proliferated globally in recent years. In The Generic Sublime: Organizational Models for Global Architecture, a new book edited by Ciro Najle and co-published by Actar and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a series of essays explores these dominating edifices, investigating how the generic “holds the potential to become its very opposite: the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary”.

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Screen/Print #51: Moving from the Ordinary to the Extraordinary with "The Generic Sublime"