1st Edition

Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City

By Ferda Kolatan Copyright 2024
282 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids , Ferda Kolatan... Read more

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Biography

Ferda Kolatan is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design and a founding director of SU11 Architecture + Design. Mr. Kolatan’s design work with SU11 has been exhibited at renowned venues including the FRAC Center, Walker Art Center, Vitra Design Museum, PS1, MoMA, Art Basel, and the Venice, Istanbul, and Beijing Biennales. As an academic, he has taught at SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, University of Virginia, University of Innsbruck, and Columbia University among others. Mr. Kolatan has contributed to numerous architectural publications and coauthored the book Meander: Variegating Architecture. He was selected as a “Young Society Leader” by the American-Turkish Society in New York and his Cairo research studio was awarded the inaugural 2017 ARCHITECT Magazine Studio Prize.