Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
Angelika Fitz is Director of Architekturzentrum Wien. Her curatorial projects include
Elke Krasny is Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Department of Education in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and coeditor of
How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies.
Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from an extraordinarily diverse group of contributors.
Focusing on the three crisis areas of economy, ecology, and labor, the book describes projects including village reconstruction in China; irrigation in Spain; community land trust in Puerto Rico; revitalization of modernist public housing in France; new alliances in informal settlements in Nairobi; and the redevelopment of traditional building methods in flood areas in Pakistan. Essays consider such topics as ethical architecture, land policy, creative ecologies, diverse economies, caring communities, and the exploitation of labor. Taken together, these case studies and essays provide evidence that architecture and urbanism have the capacity to make the planet livable, again.
Essays byMauro Baracco, Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Jane Da Mosto, Angelika Fitz, Hélène Frichot, Katherine Gibson, Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra, Valeria Graziano, Gabu Heindl, Elke Krasny, Lisa Law, Ligia Nobre, Meike Schalk, Linda Tegg, Ana Carolina Tonetti, Kim Trogal, Joan C. Tronto, Theresa Williamson, Louise Wright
Case studiesaaa atelier d'architecture autogérée, Ayuntamiento BCN, Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/Urbana, Cíclica [Space.Community.Ecology] + CAVAA arquitectes, Care+Repair Tandems Vienna (including Gabu Heindl, Zissis Kotionis + Phoebe Giannisi, rotor, Meike Schalk + Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Cristian Stefanescu, Rosario Talevi and many others), Colectivo 720, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, EAHR Emergency Architecture & Human Rights, Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña CLT, Anna Heringer, Anupama Kundoo, KDI Kounkuey Design Initiative, Lacaton & Vassal, Yasmeen Lari, muf architecture/art, Paulo Mendes da Rocha + MMBB, RUF Rural Urban Framework, Studio Vlay Streeruwitz, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Xu Tiantian/DnA_Design and Architecture, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin
Copublished with Architekturzentrum Wien
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Table of Contents
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Essays
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Introduction
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Care
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Ecology
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Labor
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Economy
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Case Studies
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Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet: Twenty-one Case Studies
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Recovery of the Irrigation System at the Thermal Orchards, Caldes de Montbui, Spain, 2015ByCÍCLICA [space·community·ecology] sccl.,CÍCLICA [space·community·ecology] sccl.Search for other works by this author on:
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Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2014ByCorporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña,Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín PeñaSearch for other works by this author on:G-8 Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades Aledañas al Caño Martín Peña, Inc.G-8 Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades Aledañas al Caño Martín Peña, Inc.Search for other works by this author on:
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Superblock Model, Barcelona, Spain, since 2016ByAjuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Council)Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Council)Search for other works by this author on:
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100 Classrooms for Refugee Children, Za’atari Village, JordanByEmergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR)Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR)Search for other works by this author on:
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PC Caritas, Melle, BelgiumByarchitecten de vylder vinck taillieuarchitecten de vylder vinck taillieuSearch for other works by this author on:
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R-Urban, Colombes (2011-16), Bagneux, Gennevilliers (2017-ongoing), FranceByatelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa)atelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa)Search for other works by this author on:
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