Project The Preemptive City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Prologue Infrastructures 8
4. Chapter 1 Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems 10
5. Chapter 2 Architectural Storytelling: A Space between Critical Practice and Fragile Environments 36
6. Chapter 3 Infrastructural Love in Times of COVID-19: Care, Repair, and Maintenance 54
7. Taking Instructions 72
8. Chapter 4 Implicated in Care, Haunted by Protection: The Violence of Bronze and Stone Bodies 114
9. Project An Infrastructural Performance: Caring for the Posthuman Landscape 136
10. Chapter 5 Interrupting Infrastructures: Dust in the Desert 142
11. Project Infrastructural Remains: Caring for Anthropogenic Ruins 160
12. Chapter 6 A Villa Borghese Love Story: The Parking Garage as Support Structure 164
13. Project Moving Peripheries: The Concrete Circus 188
14. Chapter 7 Sandstorm, Mirage, Sludge: Mourning for Dead Support Structures 192
15. Project The Nonhuman Embassy: Representational Critters and Calamitous Diplomacy 210
16. Chapter 8 A Day with a Duck 216
17. Project The Cleaning Pigeons 234
18. Chapter 9 On Mediums and Exchange: Narrative Flow in the Strait of Hormuz 238
19. Project Is Data Brief? 262
20. Chapter 10 Plantationocene Parable: Infrastructural Rhythms and After-Affects 268
21. Project The Preemptive City 290
22. Chapter 11 Bordered Imagination 296
23. Project Utö Campus: Student Housing Infrastructure 306
24. Chapter 12 A Landscape Inventory: Ulla Bodorff’s Mapping of the Järva Field 310
25. Project Connecting Infrastructure 332
26. Chapter 13 Drain Ontology 338
27. Project Conversion of a Military Base: Reuse of Infrastructural Leftovers 352
28. Chapter 14 The Critical Zone: Observatory Space 356
29. Project After the Human: Monument to the Anthropocene 370
30. Chapter 15 A Synthetic Universe: An Underground Network of Sensing Infrastructures 376
31. Contributors 388
32. Index 394