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Real life in Detroit’s modernist masterpiece: Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Park
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Thanks for the View,
Mr. Mies
Lafayette Park, Detroit
MeTroPoLIs books
edited and with text by danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar,
natasha Chandani|Placement.
Lafayette park, an affordable middle-class residential
area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest
collection of buildings designed by Ludwig mies van
der rohe in the world. today, it is one of Detroit’s most
racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods,
although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in
financial distress. through interviews with and essays
by residents; reproductions of archival material; and new
photographs by Karin Jobst, vasco roma, and Corine
vermeulen, and previously unpublished photographs
by documentary filmmaker Janine Debanné, Thanks
for the View, Mr. Mies examines the way that Lafayette
park residents confront and interact with this unique
modernist environment. Lafayette park has not received
the level of international attention that other similar
projects by mies have. this may be due in part to its
location in Detroit, a city whose most positive qualities
are often overlooked in the media. this book is a
reaction against the way that iconic modernist architecture
is often represented. Whereas other writers may
focus on the design intentions of the architect, authors
aubert, Cavar and Chandani seek to show the organic
and idiosyncratic ways that the people who live in
Lafayette park actually use the architecture and how
this experience, in turn, affects their everyday lives.
While there are many publications about abandoned
buildings in Detroit and about the city’s prosperous
past, this book is about a remarkable part of the city as
it exists today, in the twenty-first century.
978-1-935202-92-9
pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $29.95 CDn $29.95
September/architecture & Urban Studies
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro:
Inside-Out, and still Lincoln
Center
dAMIAnI
the redesign of Lincoln Center is one of the most challenging and
innovative civic projects in recent urban history. over the past eight
years, Diller Scofidio + renfro (DS+r), in close collaboration with
FxFowle, Beyer Blender Belle and Lincoln Center’s leadership, has
transformed the 50-year-old modernist citadel into a porous and
democratic campus. this visually rich document is the first comprehensive
book to feature the extensive redevelopment in its entirety.
Inside-Out, and still Lincoln Center details DS+r’s interpretation of
the modernist project after several generations of social and political
change. through a combination of photographs, drawings, renderings,
archival records and texts, the book describes the innovative
strategies that have dissolved the public/private divide and
effectively turned the campus inside-out, extending the spectacle
of the performance halls into the Center’s mute public spaces and
surrounding streets. Conceived as a cross between an art book,
a scholarly record and an architectural diary, this publication
demonstrates how the recent redesign both respects and challenges
preconceived notions about Lincoln Center and its ongoing role
as a cultural hub in an ever-changing city.
this unorthodox publication is comprised entirely of gatefolds; a
series of inside-out centerfolds where the exterior pages of each
spread feature large-format photographs highlighting different parts
of the campus. new imagery has been produced for this publication
by the acclaimed architectural photographer Iwan Bann and newcomer,
matthew montieth, as well as by other photographers. Inside
the gatefolds, tucked behind these lush photos, is a series of “back
stories” that reveal the surprising evolution and unexpected afterlife
of the same spaces. the book can therefore be read in two ways—
as a photo essay that leads readers on a visual tour of the campus,
or as a series of intricate short stories narrated through rich and
experimental ephemera that allows readers to explore the many
projects within a project.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a transdisciplinary practice that spans the
fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape design, visual arts,
performing arts, digital media and print. DS+r is led by elizabeth
Diller, ricardo Scofidio and Charles renfro, who collaborate with a
group of architects and artists in their new York-based studio.
978-88-6208-244-0
Clth, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 60 gatefolds / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $85.00 CDn $85.00
november/architecture & Urban Studies
A brilliantly designed
documentation of Lincoln
Center’s inspired architectural
transformation
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