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OfficeUS New World

Englisch

Franch i Gilabert, Eva / Miljacki, Ana / Schafer,
Erscheint am 01.04.2025
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783037784563
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 272
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Beschreibung

"OfficeUS New World" highlights the work, conversations and intelligence developed by the fellows and the visitors throughout the Biennale, to be printed at the close of the exhibition. OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: "The Office" and "The Repository". The "Repository" presents 1000 projects designed by 200 US offices working abroad in a chronological archive of the last 100 years. Collectively these projects tell multiple, imbricated stories of U.S. firms, typologies, and technologies, as well as a broader narrative of modernization and its global reach. The "Office" engages these projects, revisiting their premises and conclusions over the course of the Biennale. It functions as a laboratory staffed by a diverse group of resident design partners collaborating with outpost offices and a rotating cast of visiting experts. Together, these two halves of OfficeUS create both an historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architectural thought, and a petri dish in which that record is submitted to contemporary agents of disruption and critique.