Drawing together five years of projects by students at the Deep_Futures Lab at the Institute of Architecture, U. of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, this volume contains projects created under the direction of architect and teacher Hani Rashid from 2011 to 2016, which aim to address key challenges and habitat-related issues architects face in the future. The studio encourages the development of conceptual, practical, and critical skills and the means for creating new, compelling, and future-oriented architecture and views the city of the future as a space for environmentally related, scientific, phenomenological, and humanistic challenges, as well as practical ones, that lead to new ideas and radical possibilities to promote human interaction, technological flow, and ecological intelligence through architecture. The innovative projects focused on works for cities yet to be built; building design emphasizing optics, phenomena, and atmosphere; a sustainable and economically viable city; ports of entry; corporate headquarters; an urban waterfront; museums; architecture for large-scale occupancy and mass spectacles; and communities on Antarctica. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Hani Rashid, co-founder of Asymptote, the visionary New York architectural practice, has been heading up Studio Hani Rashid in Vienna since 2011. The curriculum focuses on the development of conceptual and practical skills for creating future-oriented architecture on experimental investigation of atmospheric, phenomenal, and visual effects, which provides intelligent solutions for contemporary forms of dwelling and being but which should also satisfy "feasibility criteria".
"Re: Futures" uses texts, digital visualizations and descriptive architectural sketches to document the work created over recent years, and thereby reveals a spectrum of contemporary design methods and future-oriented architectural themes.
