Architecture + Urbanism recommends 'Massimiliano Fuksas: 22 January 2016'

On Friday 22 January 2016 the Manchester School of Architecture is pleased to host a lecture by the Italian architect MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS


INTRODUCTION

Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, www.fuksas.com is an international architectural practice with offices in Rome (since 1967), Paris (since 1989) and Shenzhen (since 2008). With built projects across Europe, Asia and North America, Studio Fuksas is characterized by an innovative approach as well as interdisciplinary skills and experiences consolidated over three decades through the design of masterplans, offices, residential buildings, infrastructures, cultural centres, leisure centres, retail developments, hotels, shopping malls, public buildings, interior design and product design.


WHO IS IT FOR?

This is a FREE lecture organised by the Manchester School of Architecture. It is an open lecture for both students and members of the profession.

TICKETS

Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/massimiliano-fuksas-lecture-tickets-20848551579


TIME

Friday 22 January 2016, 18:00 - 19:30

VENUE

4th FLOOR LECTURE THEATRE (403)

BENZIE BUILDING/CHATHAM BUILDING

MMU


This event has been made possible through the sponsorship of The Bradshaw Gass Trust.

http://bgtrust.org.uk/

Architecture + Urbanism recommends 'THE CITY THAT NEVER WAS'

The City That Never Was
Reconsidering the Speculative Nature of Contemporary Urbanization

Christopher Marcinkoski
(assistant professor of landscape architecture, University of Pennsylvania)


Published in December 2015 by Princeton Architectural Press this new book presents a comprehensive account of a contemporary urban phenomenon. The publishers write

'One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects.The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That NeverWas, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls "speculative urbanism," is out-of-sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the "ghost estates" of Ireland and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today.
In addition to an in-depth theoretical investigation, the author includes a history of speculative development, as well as numerous design examples for more responsible urban growth.'