After Crisis

Post-Fordist Conditions for Architecture

Architectural Papers series is edited by the Josep Lluís Mateo Chair at the ETH Zurich since 2005. Covering the wide range of topics related to teaching and architectural culture in general, it is aimed at expanding the narrow boundaries of the discipline. Its fifth issue concentrates around the new conditions for architectural practice and around the new epistemologies that may inform it in the next future. That is, in the period after the financial bubble has collapsed and living and working conditions have significantly changed. Essays, studies and interviews, along with a selection of indicative projects, tackle the actual issues of growth and shrinking, economy and ideology, craftsmanship and social space in the city, materiality and sustainability in architecture. In a logical sequence, they depict the current reality of architecture.

With contributions by Iñaki Ábalos, Solano Benitez, Alexander Brodsky, Isabel Concheiro, Frederick Cooper Llosa, Hans Ibelings, Krunoslav Ivanisin, Julio Martinez Calzon, Josep Lluís Mateo, Richard Sennett, Wang Shu and Ramias Steinemann.

About Josep Lluís Mateo
Josep Lluís Mateo born 1949, architect, since 2002 professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH).

After Crisis
Post-Fordist Conditions for Architecture
Architectural Papers V
Chair of Josep Lluís Mateo, Departement of Architecture, ETH Zurich and Krunoslav Ivanisin (ed.)
October 2010, 160 pages, softcover
16.5 x 22 cm, 6½ x 8¾ in,
approx. 200 illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-03778-230-9, e
EUR 25.00 / USD 39.95 / GBP 25.00

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