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One of the critical intentions of the program was to tactically operate across a wide range of distinct scales: from the macro-scale of the city and its constituent districts and neighborhoods, to the micro-scales of individuated buildings acting as architectural components inserted within the urban field. The term \"URBANbuild\" signifies the compression of this broad spectrum, referring to a progression that spans from urban design to design build and the range of disciplinary areas and differently scaled studios that comprised this program. In addition, the term alludes to the complex enfolding of design research with material practices--the interweaving of analytical urban investigations and speculative architectural design research concurrent with the construction of real built artifacts. The scalar superimposition that characterizes URBANbuild''s multi-layered nature thus emerges as a method for collaborative cross-disciplinary dialog, as a resistance to either overly local and ad hoc, or overly global and generic solutions for the city''s future.URBANbuild: local_global is, quite literally, a double-sided book. Its intention--to simultaneously look inward toward the city of New Orleans, and outward toward a larger global context--emerged from the desire to reconnect local research, analysis, and design with a broader framework that embraces external knowledge and experience. The two sides of this book are conceptually distinct yet continuous. On one side are laid out the local operations of URBANbuild, divided into seven distinct sections differentiated by scale and approach that together constitute a continuum of interrelated research systems, methodologies, and design strategies: (1) City Datascapes, (2) Urban Cartography, (3) Urban Strategies, (4) Megablock Housing+, (5) Portable + Mobile Infill, (6) Prototype Inventory, and (7) Microbuild. These are also preceded by a set of theoretical texts that elaborate the conceptual foundation underpinning each of these sections. On the other side of the book, there unfolds a compilation of global research divided into an additional seven sections containing mega-scaled metropolitan statistical data, urban morphologies, and an analytical inventory of architectural precedents drawn from a network of comparable world watercities, that collectively inform and contextualize local URBANbuild research and practice. These sections include: (1) Global Matrix, (2) City Scan, (3) Urban Imprint, (4) Block Morphology, (5) Block Typologies, (6) Housing Inventory, and (7) Unit Assemblies. The creation of this local-global matrix was intended to expand New Orleans''s potential future urban scenarios by mining the intellectual capital of other watercities challenged by related issues and to establish an inventory of linked models at multiple scales that can be both provocative and educational for this city. The URBANbuild program and its products, including four built prototypical houses, was extremely successful as evidenced by the extended coverage that it received in the media. Components of the project were published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Domus and Cityscapes among others; and the work was exhibited internationally in many venues, including the Ogden Museum in New Orleans and the Venice Biennale in 2006, the latter of which was toured internationally for one year. In addition, the last URBANbuild house, which was completed in the spring of 2008, was the subject of a documentary series on the Sundance Channel that aired in August of 2008. Although the audience for the publication is primarily in the professional domain of architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines, the book was also intended for a global audience interested in housing, urban and environmental issues. 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Over the past three decades, the boundaries between art and architecture have continued to blur, giving rise to a series of works known as installations whose conceptual, spatial and material trajectories have generated a new and expanding network of relations between the domains of architecture, interiors, sculpture and landscape.  At the same time, the range of institutional venues advancing architectural installation practices, such as the PS1 program spawned by the MoMA in New York, the Serpentine Gallery's annual architectural pavilion in London and the Art and Architectural Biennale's in Venice, have provided platforms to intensify the production and reach of contemporary installations. Installations have not only contributed to the advancement of architectural research but have also enabled the redefinition and progressive development of architecture's disciplinary territory allowing architects to explore spatial and tectonic ideas, experiment with emerging technological strategies, and distill perceptual and experiential conditions without the limitations traditionally imposed by the permanence and utility of building.  Following the legacy of Rosalind Krauss, EXPANDED FIELD: Installation Architecture Beyond Art by Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham explores the realm of art and architecture across a broad terrain of installation practices, revealing a critical territory that, despite its exuberant proliferation, has been historically defined as a negativity: the progeny of that which is both not-architecture and not-art. Within this book, a wide range of art and architectural works are positioned and mapped as constellations within a newly expanded field suspended between Architecture, Interiors, Sculpture, and Landscape. These four terms are the initial reference points used to elaborate a more extensive taxonomical framework defining twelve distinct territories where the analytical drawings and photographic indexes of seventy-five installation projects are situated. The expanded field diagram is a conceptual framework that operates on many levels. It acts as a lens through which to theorize and classify the trajectories of current installation practices and serves as an infrastructure to organize the content of the book. Along the trajectory from interiors to sculpture, for example, one finds the immersive chromatic environments of Carlos Cruz-Diez, the thermal and radiant atmospheres of Philippe Rahm, the intensely graphic patterned surfaces of Jrgen Mayer and Yayoi Kusama, and the interactive mediated light landscapes of Ryoji Ikeda and Julio Le Parc. These are installations intent on foregrounding immersive atmospheric spaces rather than sculptural objects and that collectively define Chromatic\/Graphic Immersion, one of the twelve typologies through which the book is organized. Along the path from interiors toward landscape, are situated a different series of installation projects including the undulating orange strata of Bamscape and the pink spongy terrain of Mute Room, two works by Thom Faulders both of which redefine ground as a programmed surface and occupiable topography. These qualities of landscape then merge with the architectonic in the thickened geology of Rip Curl Canyon by Ball-Nogues, the artificial Dunescape by SHoP and the cellular topography of Voromuro developed for the ICA in Boston by Office dA. 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