1st Edition

This is Temporary How transient projects are redefining architecture

By Cate St Hill Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

208 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded ‘pop-ups’ and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic architecture that is subtly suggesting how we could live, work and play more harmoniously together. Featuring revealing interviews with 13 young, emerging and socially-minded practices from New York... Read more

1. Young Architects Programmes: Testing, testing, testing…  Interview 1: The Living  Interview 2: GUN Architects  2. Public Realm and Engagement: Facilitating Possibilities and Animating Places  Interview 3: We Made That  Interview 4: The Decorators Perspective by Shumi Bose  3. Playful Storytellers: Digging Deeper and Building Narratives  Interview 5: Aberrant Architecture  Interview 6: Studio Weave  4. Collectives and Self-initiated Projects: Making it up as you go along  Interview 7: Assemble Interview  8: EXYZT  Interview 9: Practice Architecture Perspective by Mariana Pestana ‘Building Alternative Possible Worlds with Temporary Projects’  5. Participative Building and Materiality: Scarcity of Resources and a Platform for Communication  Interview 10: Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser  Interview 11: Plastique Fantastique  6. The Art World and Temporary Architecture: The Meeting of Two Disciplines  Interview 12: GRUPPE  Interview 13: Morag Myerscough Perspective by Cany Ash ‘Learning from Canning Town Caravanserai: a temporary town and its legacy’ 

Biography

Cate St Hill is an architecture and design writer, currently writing for bi-monthly publication Blueprint, and previously for Building Design. She has also worked at the British Council and as a researcher for FAT Architecture and Crimson Architectural Historians’ British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.