Petropolis Book Launch & Discussion
Friday, Jan 10, 20144 AMEDT
| 401 Richmond Street West Toronto, ON
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Please join us for a discussion on Petropolis — Resource Extraction Urbanism and the launching of the book, The Petropolis of Tomorrow, which examines the confluence of infrastructure, ecologies, and economies through the act of territorial design. Speakers include: Neeraj Bhatia, The Open Workshop/ InfraNet Lab/ CCA Maya Przybylski, MPD / InfraNet Lab / University of Waterloo Rafico Ruiz, Seachange / McGill University Imre Szeman, Petrocultures / University of Alberta Mason White, Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab / University of Toronto Swipe Design 401 Richmond Ave West, Main Floor Toronto, ON January 10, 2014 6pm Information on the book: The Petropolis of Tomorrow Neeraj Bhatia & Mary Casper Format: Hardcover, 576 Pages Publisher: Actar / Architecture at Rice In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines. Articles by: Neeraj Bhatia, Luis Callejas, Mary Casper, Felipe Correa, Brian Davis, Farès el-Dahdah, Rania Ghosn, Carola Hein, Bárbara Loureiro, Clare Lyster, Geoff Manaugh, Alida C. Metcalf, Juliana Moura, Koen Olthuis, Albert Pope, Maya Przybylski, Rafico Ruiz, Mason White, Sarah Whiting Photo Essays by: Garth Lenz, Peter Mettler, Alex Webb Research/ Design Team: Alex Gregor, Joshua Herzstein, Libo Li, Joanna Luo, Bomin Park, Weijia Song, Peter Stone, Laura Williams, Alex Yuen Copies of the books will be available for purchase.
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