Urban-Think Tank by Alfredo Brillembourg
Urban pilot projects from the informal city! Urban-Think Tank (UTT), an interdisciplinary design practice emerging from the turbulent political environment of Chávez-era Caracas, has pursued projects in Latin America, Europe, and Africa for almost twenty years. Their diverse work positioned the firm at the forefront of a social turn in architecture in the late 1990's, with concrete urban interventions encouraging social cohesion in the megacities of the Global South and Europe’s evolving metropoles. U-TT has also produced numerous media projects that harness film, theatre, exhibitions, and print to create new discursive spaces and question how our cities are shaped, and for whom. Most notable is its work on the squatted skyscraper for which the firm shared the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. This book looks forward as well as back, imagining new spaces for a hyper-urbanized world and gaining insight from informal settlements, spatial play, and artistic interventions in public space.
Brillembourg, Alfredo: - Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner head the interdisciplinary design firm Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), which they co-founded in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1998. They have held a joint Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since 2010. Brillembourg and Klumpner have received the 2010 Ralph Erskine Award, the 2011 Holcim Gold Award for Latin America, and the 2012 Holcim Global Silver Award for innovative contributions to ecological and social design practices. Notable built work by U-TT include the Metro Cable and a series of 'Vertical Gyms' in Caracas. Their books include Informal City: Caracas Case and Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
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| ISBN 13 | 9783775742863 |
| ISBN 10 | 3775742867 |
| Title | Urban-Think Tank |
| Author | Alfredo Brillembourg |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year published | 2021-12-09 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
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