Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction
Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction
$49.00
Krunwiede, Keith
Park Books 2017
SKU: 101109
With An Atlas of Another America, Keith Krumwiede has written a bold and highly original work of speculative architectural fiction that calls on Americans Land, increasingly, the rest of the world to seriously reconsider the concept of the single-family home. Krumwiedes Freedomland is a fictional utopia of communal superhomes constructed from the remains of the suburban metropolis. Eschewing formal innovation for its own sake, Freedomland's radical architects rely on artful appropriation and the reorganization of found forms. Krumwiede produces the complete plans for Freedomland in the style of a historical architectural treatise, supplemented with more than two hundred plans and drawings and five essays that draw on a long lineage of architectural thought from Piranesi to Ledoux, Branzi, and Koolhaas. Among the essays, Atypical Plans is a redaction of Koolhaass landmark text Typical Plan, Supermodel Homes looks at the mad genius of developer David Weekly and New Homes for America is a short story in which a young architect produces new forms of communal living.
272 pp. Cl.
