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The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle  presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation.

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Preface by Michael Sorkin Essays by Matthias Altwicker / Ana María Durán Calisto / Patrick Radden Keefe / David Leven / Michael Sorkin / Achva Benzinberg Stein and Osvaldo Paladines Zurita Edited by Michael Sorkin / Ana María Durán Calisto and Matthias Altwicker Each year, the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York travels to a city somewhere in the world that is experiencing a revelatory form of stress. In January of 2006 joined by students and faculty from the Universidad Catolica in Quito and from the architecture and landscape programs at CCNY – the destination of the group was the small town of Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. 

At the time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing municipality in the country. There was one reason for this: the oil boom. Indeed, almost everyone calls the place “Lago Agrio” – Bitter Lake, after the town in Texas that houses the headquarters of Texaco, the first petroleum giant on the scene. There’s little irony in this name. As the endless lawsuit against Chevron, Texaco’s successor, has made abundantly clear, Lago’s growth has come at the cost of extremely bitter consequences. The group was inspired to visit by a more particular observation: Lago’s projected rate of growth would see the population exceed 150,000 at just the moment the oil ran out. And so, they decided to investigate what might happen then, how Nueva Loja could move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern that embrace renewed harmony with the natural environment and is dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants.

The projects in this volume represent a series of propositions for such a place. They are utopian in that they look to a time of harmony and prosperity but intensely practical in that they stem from the specifics of people and place and utilize simple, historical, and local technologies, not any magic fix.

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Book Size: 11.6 x 8.26 in / 297 x 210 mm Format: Landscape Pages: 368 Language: English with Spanish TranslationPhotographs: 210 Illustrations: 780 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-988-16194-2-6)

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• This wholly unique book explores one of the most relevant lawsuits in the history of architecture

• Features multiple essays by major architectural thinkers

• An elaborate examination of an extraordinary test case with regards to design as community saviour

• Text in both English and Spanish

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Displaced Llonch+Vidalle Architecture

Foreword by George Ranalli Introduction by Michael Sorkin Essays by Mario Corea and Paul Guzzardo Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle  presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are felled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that intricate and inde finable nexus of architecture and its theory in which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of ideas in architecture and design.

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Book Size: 7.25 x 9.25 in / 185 x 235 mmBox Size: 7.50 x 9.50 x 1.25 in / 190 x 241 x 30 mmFormat: Portrait Pages: 272 Language: EnglishPhotographs: 65 Illustrations: 490 Edition: Hardcover in clamshell box (978-988-15125-2-9)

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Beyond Petropolis Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja

Preface by Michael Sorkin Essays by Matthias Altwicker / Ana María Durán Calisto / Patrick Radden Keefe / David Leven / Michael Sorkin / Achva Benzinberg Stein and Osvaldo Paladines Zurita Edited by Michael Sorkin / Ana María Durán Calisto and Matthias Altwicker

Each year, the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York travels to a city somewhere in the world that is experiencing a revelatory form of stress. In January of 2006 joined by students and faculty from the Universidad Catolica in Quito and from the architecture and landscape programs at CCNY – the destination of the group was the small town of Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador.

At the time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing municipality in the country. There was one reason for this: the oil boom. Indeed, almost everyone calls the place “Lago Agrio” – Bitter Lake, after the town in Texas that houses the headquarters of Texaco, the first petroleum giant on the scene. There’s little irony in this name. As the endless lawsuit against Chevron, Texaco’s successor, has made abundantly clear, Lago’s growth has come at the cost of extremely bitter consequences. The group was inspired to visit by a more particular observation: Lago’s projected rate of growth would see the population exceed 150,000 at just the moment the oil ran out. And so, they decided to investigate what might happen then, how Nueva Loja could move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern that embrace renewed harmony with the natural environment and is dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants.

The projects in this volume represent a series of propositions for such a place. They are utopian in that they look to a time of harmony and prosperity but intensely practical in that they stem from the specifics of people and place and utilize simple, historical, and local technologies, not any magic fix.

Book Size: 11.6 x 8.26 in / 297 x 210 mm Format: Landscape Pages: 368 Language: English with Spanish TranslationPhotographs: 210 Illustrations: 780 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-988-16194-2-6)

City Works 3

Foreword by George Ranalli Edited by Bradley Horn

City Works 3 is the third in a series of books that document the exciting work of students from The City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture.

The City College of New York has a long and important tradition of producing internationally recognized scholarship and research while maintaining its promise of an accessible public education for the city of New York. Through an emphasis on hand craft and digital fabrication, interdisciplinary research, and ecologically and culturally sustainable practices, the SSA encourages a responsible engagement with the discipline of architecture, while cultivating rigorous exploration of new theories, materials and technologies.

With three unique programs including Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, the student work represented here reflects some of the most progressive ideas about how we inhabit both the natural and the built environment.

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Displaced Llonch+Vidalle Architecture

Foreword by George Ranalli Introduction by Michael Sorkin Essays by Mario Corea and Paul Guzzardo Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle  presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are felled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that intricate and inde finable nexus of architecture and its theory in which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of ideas in architecture and design.

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Generic Specific Continuum Julio Salcedo / Scalar Architecture

Foreword by Luis Rojo de Castro Text by Julio Salcedo Essay by Ivan Rupnik Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

This book presents the work of the Spanish architect Julio Salcedo in a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo’s houses, early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their fresh originality and precocious sophistication, are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for large-scale buildings.

The projects’ varying locales, scales, and ambitions all demonstrate a commitment to architecture as a conceptual medium with the capacity to tackle complex ideas as well as a material practice of transformative, worldly practicality. Each is a built essay that works through architectural problems of form, construction, and material to archive thought-provoking resolutions of a difIcult yet satisfying beauty.

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Beyond Petropolis Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja

Hardcover in Slipcase

Preface by Michael Sorkin

Essays by Matthias Altwicker / Ana María Durán Calisto / Patrick Radden Keefe / David Leven / Michael Sorkin / Achva Benzinberg Stein and Osvaldo Paladines Zurita

Edited by Michael Sorkin / Ana María Durán Calisto and Matthias Altwicker

“... how Nueva Loja could move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern that embrace renewed harmony with the natural environment and is dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants. The projects in this volume represent a series of propositions for such a place.”

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