Autres odyssées de l'espace Cover

Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture (eds.)

Autres odyssées de l’espace: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan et Alessandro Poli

Today we are witnessing a renewed enthusiasm for space exploration, with scientific expeditions, satellite launches, and the emergence of space tourism pushing us to reconsider our relationship with our planet.

Other Space Odysseys has nothing to do with Space Architecture or architecture in outer space. It is not a celebration of high-tech architecture and imagery or extreme physical and mental conditions. Instead, this book proposes a letting go of architecture understood as the production of -material goods in favour of architecture as the production of ideas.

How can thinking about space lead to fresh perspectives on earth? Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli present different avenues for approaching this question. Their odysseys, real and virtual, ultimately promise a rediscovery of our own world.

Today we are witnessing a renewed enthusiasm for space exploration, with scientific expeditions, satellite launches, and the emergence of space tourism pushing us to reconsider our relationship with our planet.

Other Space Odysseys has nothing to do with Space Architecture or architecture in outer space. It is not a celebration of high-tech architecture and imagery or extreme physical and mental conditions. Instead, this book proposes a letting go of architecture understood as the production of -material goods in favour of architecture as the production of ideas.

How can thinking about space lead to fresh perspectives on earth? Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli present different avenues for approaching this question. Their odysseys, real and virtual, ultimately promise a rediscovery of our own world.

This book is also available in English

Edited by Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture

15,0 x 21,0 cm

160 pages, 113 illustrations

paperback

2010, 978-3-03778-194-4, French
CHF 25.00
Out of print

Giovanna Borasi

Giovanna Borasi is curator for contemporary architecture at the CCA.

Mirko Zardini

Mirko Zardini (*1955 in Verona, Italy) is an architect, researcher, writer, and curator. He gained his degree in architecture at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1980 and worked as a teacher at Syracuse, Miami and Harvard Universities, at ETH in Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne. He was Senior Consulting Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) from 2003-2005 before he was appointed its Director and Chief Curator in 2005.