The World as an Architectural Project

• Main Authors: Sarkis, Hashim (Author), Barrio, Roi Salqueiro (Author), Kozlowski, Gabriel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2019
• Subjects: Visionary architecture; Unbuilt architectural projects
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"The world's growing vulnerability to large scale risks is prompting action at the global scale. This book proposes that architects have played an under recognized but important role in imagining the future of the planet through world-scale projects, while examining the institutional and p...

Table of Contents:

• Architecture and the world scale
• The world according to architecture
• Five wishes for the next fifty worlds.