Expansions: How will we live together?

Architects are rethinking their tools and enlarging their table to include other professionals and citizens to address complex problems. Contributions to the Expansions volume reveal recurring themes of multispecies worlding, social and economic justice, environmental concerns, public modes of transportation, and the digital/analog binary.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 16 June 2021
Publisher: Silvana

Architects are currently reevaluating their toolkit to effectively tackle the intricate challenges at hand. They are also broadening their horizons to encompass a diverse range of professionals and citizens.

The Expansions, edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir, serves as a companion to the diverse themes showcased in the Biennale Architettura 2021. This collection comprises over 80 responses to the central question posed by the theme: How will we live together? These contributions expand upon the various topics presented by participants in the galleries in Venice.

Assembling the insights and perspectives of authors from diverse fields related to architecture—academics, curators, journalists, students, and more—this volume features a compilation of short essays that highlight recurring themes currently of interest to various architecture and design communities worldwide. These themes encompass multispecies worlding, social and economic justice, the history of twentieth-century modern spatial practices, environmental concerns, public modes of transportation, as well as examinations and challenges to the digital/analog binary, among others.

The graphic design and layout of the volume have been meticulously crafted by Omnivore, Inc. Additionally, the book is available in paperback format: Cohabitats. ISBN 9788836648603.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 127 x 209 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788836648610