Description
“Unfinishedness” is probably most strikingly represented in works of art, but this issue of ‘MONU’ aims to investigate the concept through architecture and urbanism. By addressing its many different facets, from cities to regions and interiors, and looking beyond the physical structures and architecture to examine the economic, political, ecological, and social aspects of cities, it seeks to discover the potential as well as the shortcomings of the unfinished. In this sense, “unfinished urbanism” is a truly global topic. Despite some success stories, most unfinished structures remain as symbols of decay, financial hurdles, or corruption in cities, often leading to further challenges.
CONTENTS
To Be Finished Is to Be Dead – Interview with Mark Wigley by Bernd Upmeyer
Overdesign Is a Problem Too by Marco Enia and Flavio Martella
The Perks and Quandaries of Coming Undone a Conversation with Akoaki
The Unfinished City: Approaches for Embracing an Open Urbanism by Nick Dunn and Dan Dubowitz
The Architectural Non-finito and the Death of the “Architect” by Wijdane Esseffah
Incompleteness and Play by Ana Morcillo Pallares
Roadside Picnic – Remote Detour around the World’s Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants by Paul Cetnarski
Unsettled by Isabelle Pateer
California City by Elian Somers
Suspended Urbanities: The Spatiality of Unfinished Architectures in Naples by Maria Reitano and Nikolaus Gartner
Stranded in Limbo: 25 Unfinished Structures by MARS at PBSA
Concrete Sprouts and Unfinished Urban Dreams by Avsar Gürpinar, Nur Horsanal, and Cansu Cürgen
The ‘Unfinished’ City of Mumbai by Rupal Rathore
Hellas by Maarten Willemstein
Becoming Unstuck: Streets as Gardens, with the Disposition for Ongoing Experimentation by Dan Hill
Unfinishedness, a Practice – Interview with bplus.xyz (Arno Brandlhuber and Olaf Grawert) by Bernd Upmeyer
Unfinishedness as a Transcategorial Condition of Abandonment by Tiphaine Abenia
The Unfinished Interior by Marcello Carpino and Vittoria Poletto
The Temporal City by Ian Nazareth and David Schwarzman
Ordos by Anthony Reed
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