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OThEr SPACE ODySSEyS:
grEg Lynn, MIChAEL MALTZAn,
ALESSAnDrO POLI
Edited by giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini,
and Canadian Centre for Architecture
Design: Integral Lars Müller
15 × 21 cm, 6 × 8 ¼ in, 160 pages
113 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-193-7, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-194-4, French
EUR 25.– GBP 23.– USD / CAD 35.–
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Today we are witnessing a renewed enthusiasm
for space exploration, with scientific expeditions,
satellite launches, and the emergence of space
tourism pushing us to reconsider our relationship
with our planet.
Other Space Odysseys has nothing to do with
Space Architecture or architecture in outer space.
It is not a celebration of high-tech architecture
and imagery or extreme physical and mental conditions.
Instead, this book proposes a letting
go of architecture understood as the production
of material goods in favour of architecture as
the production of ideas.
How can thinking about space lead to fresh perspectives
on earth? Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan
and Alessandro Poli present different avenues
for approaching this question. Their odysseys,
real and virtual, ultimately promise a rediscovery
of our own world.
Stephen Taylor,
ryue nishizawa
PErSPECTIVES DE VIE
A LOnDrES ET A TOKyO
Edited by
giovanna Borasi, CCA
15 × 21 cm, 6 × 8 ¼ in, 160 pages
160 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-150-0, Eng
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-152-4, Fr
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.99
USD / CAD 29.90
N .O. A .H. ( New Outer Atmospheric Habitat )
Greg Lynn
When Jörg Tittel and Ethan Ryker were developing Divide, a science fiction
film addressing some of the socio-political mores that shape our world and
future, he invited me to design one of the characters: four new planets. The
N.O.A.H. ( New Outer Atmospheric Habitat) structures are internally porous,
city-scaled, man-made space stations housing millions. They are designed to
take advan-tage of orientations unique to the absence of gravity, much like the
interior organization and structures of cells or bacteria. The N.O.A.H.s are
riddled with open spaces and microclimates directly transplanted from earth. It
is a design concept combining architecture, technology, and terrestrial nature
to create a new ideal of living space — one not bound by gravity or planar surfaces.
From a distance, a N.O.A.H. resembles a single vast discrete shape, but
on closer obser vation it becomes an amalga mation of mutable and modular
cellular pockets. These cells create a variety of structural layers — similar to
a coral reef — and read as chambers and volumes within. When intersected
with the outer skin, they create crater-like openings that allow for the circulation
of light and air throughout the interior spaces.
N.O.A.H. ( New Outer Atmospheric Habitat ),
Greg Lynn, 2004
Asia, one of the “ planets” designed for the film
Divide : the structure is riddled with open spaces
and microclimates directly transplanted from
earth’s continent of the same name.
Model : 3-D printed ABS plastic
Pages 26–29 : Side, front and axonometric views
of the Asia planet.
Rendered frames
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Autoritratto con riflessa autostrada Terra-Luna
( Self-portrait with reflection of Earth-moon highway
), Alessandro Poli, 1973
Photomontage
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Zeno in his house in Riparbella, Alessandro Poli,
Zeno: Research on a Self- Sufficient Culture,
1 9 7 9 – 80
METAhAVEn
unCOrPOrATE IDEnTITy
Edited by Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden
and Vinca Kruk) with Marina Vishmidt
Co-published by Jan van Eyck Academie
Design: Metahaven
17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in, 608 pages
200 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-169-2, English
EUR 45.– GBP 45.– USD / CAD 80.–
Uncorporate Identity is an anthology of
Metahaven projects, ideas and models. A science
fiction book about design, it describes corporate
identity beyond certainty, entwined with politics,
speculation and information networks. Carved
out from the multipolar geopolitical spaces of the
early 21st century and the paradoxical leftovers
and peripheries of ancient regimes and ruined
ideologies, Uncorporate Identity is at once an
artistic manifesto for design under globalization
and a workbook of essays, narratives and
truisms investigating the ambiguous state of
identity and branding today.
Uncorporate Identity is edited by Daniel van
der Velden and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) with
Marina Vishmidt and includes contributions by
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Bruno Besana, Mariana
Celac, Boris Groys, David Singh Grewal, Vladimir
Kolossov, Keller Easterling, Dieter Lesage,
China Miéville, Mihnea Mircan, Chantal Mouffe,
Florian Schneider, Regula Stämpfli, Michael
Taussig, Marina Vishmidt, and others.
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