MONU 28 Client-Shaped Urbanism

Description

The importance of the client in shaping our built environment, whether it comes to buildings, neighbourhoods, or entire cities, is not sufficiently included in urban and architectural discourse, and thus largely forgotten, underestimated, and neglected. This issue is dedicated to investigating the topic in depth, to discover clients’ values, objectives, fears, and motivations, and the consequences of all of this for cities and buildings. What kind of design methods should be developed for better partnerships and results? How can communication between clients and designers be advanced? Which projects might never have happened without an ambitious and creative client?

CONTENTS

• Sympathy for the Devil by Beatriz Ramo (STAR)
• What Clients Want by Nigel Ostime
• The End of the Dominatrix Architect – Interview with Alejandro Zaera-Polo by Bernd Upmeyer and Beatriz Ramo
• Expectation and Reality by Leewardists
• The Fragmented Public as an Emergent Condition of “Weak Urbanism” by Iulia Hurducas
• Arkanum by Aras Gökten
• The King As Client by Azadeh Zaferani
• Arterial: The Persistence of Flow – After the City, This (Is How We Live) by Tom Marble
• Who Is the Client in a “Slum”? Towards a Deterritorialization of the Client-designer Dichotomy by Tanzil Shafique
• Makerspaces: Public as Client by Nate Bicak
• The Clients They Are a-Changing by Tommaso Raimondi and Paolo Romanò
• Behind the Scenes: A Conversation with my Client by Djamel Aït-Aïssa and Beatriz Ramo (STAR)
• The Glass House by Jon Kandel
• Not All about Beauty – Interview with Stefan Paeleman by Bernd Upmeyer
• Negotiating the Design of Emerging Urban Futures with Developer-clients by Benjamin Zagami
• Client-users and Public Architecture by Ruth Jones and Jennifer Davis
• Architecture After the Client by Nicholas Pajerski
• Ariadne’s Thread – Diverging Trajectories of Architect, Client and User by GruppoTorto
• Contested Grounds by Nicole Lambrou
• Flat Lines: The Shifting Boundaries of Cleveland’s Fiscal Topologies by Jeffrey Kruth

132 pages, ills colour & bw / 20 x 27 cm / English