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Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken MIT Press Ltd ISBN 978-0-262-53683 Englisch 300 pages 180 color illustrations 23,5 x 16,5 cm April 2019 Euro 38,80 The book ‘Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet‘, contains 21 case studies as well as 12 essays by international authors on the topics of work, economy and ecology in architecture. Contents: A planet in crisis. The earth in intensive care. Man-made environmental and social catastrophes are threatening to render the planet uninhabitable. The situation is critical and, dominated by the interests of capital, architecture and urbanism are caught up in the crisis. The book ‘Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet’ shows how architecture and urbanism can contribute to repairing the future and keeping the planet and its inhabitants alive. ‘Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet’ is an appeal for a new approach, for a caring architecture and urbanism. 21 current examples from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and Latin America as well as 12 essays by international authors on the topics of work, economy and ecology in architecture prove that architecture and urban development do not have to be subservient to the dictates of capital and the exploitation of resources and labour. The relationships between economy, ecology and work are redefined in each of these projects. The instigators of this care are extraordinarily diverse groups of people: activists, lawyers, anthropologists, artists, but also city councils and companies, working together with architects and planners. Care is always concrete, the specific local conditions are the starting point, as the exhibition shows, including earthquake-proof and sustainable village development in China, flood protection through traditional low-carbon building techniques in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the diverse conversion of modernist buildings in Brazil and Europe, an ecological community land trust in Puerto Rico, the revitalisation of historical irrigation systems in Spain, new concepts for public The book shows how architecture and urbanism are helping to revive the planet. The repair of the future has begun. Essays by: Mauro Baracco, Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Jane Da Mosto, Angelika Fitz, Hélène Frichot, Katherine Gibson, Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra, Valeria Graziano, Gabu Heindl, Elke Krasny, Lisa Law, Ligia Nobre, Meike Schalk, Linda Tegg, Ana Carolina Tonetti, Kim Trogal, Joan C. Tronto, Theresa Williamson, Louise Wright Case studies: aaa atelier d'architecture autogérée, Ayuntamiento BCN, Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/Urbana, Cíclica [Space.Community.Ecology] + CAVAA arquitectes, Care+Repair Tandems Vienna (including Gabu Heindl, Zissis Kotionis + Phoebe Giannisi, rotor, Meike Schalk + Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Cristian Stefanescu, Rosario Talevi and many others), Colectivo 720, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, EAHR Emergency Architecture & Human Rights, Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña CLT, Anna Heringer, Anupama Kundoo, KDI Kounkuey Design Initiative, Lacaton & Vassal, Yasmeen Lari, muf architecture/art, Paulo Mendes da Rocha + MMBB, RUF Rural Urban Framework, Studio Vlay Streeruwitz, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Xu Tiantian/DnA_Design and Architecture, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin The book was published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Critical Care. Architecture for a Broken Planet’ at Architekturzentrum Wien in April 2019.
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