Xyz

by Richter, Dagmar; Vidler, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781568982489
• ISBN10: 1568982488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

Dagmar Richter is one of the few architects working today who seek to radically reinvent urban design. Her work explores new solutions to architecture and planning by giving voice to elements deemed inappropriate or undesirable--traces of a site's history, contemporary photographs or drawings, and texts or spoken words. Richter's work on "re-skinning" the city proposes that the act of designing is an act of editing, appropriating, and layering. Her work, characterized by an absolute intensity of technical skill, addresses contemporary issues of authorship, precedence, site, and memory. XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter catalogs over 10 years of Dagmar Richter's design practice. This book combines a descriptive, "hyper-linked" text arrangement with drawings, models, and computer renderings of over 15 competition entries, urban design proposals, and built projects.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(1)
The Future is a Graph: Dagmar Richter's Diagrammatic Practice Anthony Vidler	10	(10)
Interleavings and Exchanges: E-Mail Conversations, Between Dagmar Richter and Claire Zimmerman, January and May 2000	20	(16)
Reskinning the City	36	(16)
Overcoding	52	(16)
The Practice of Laughter	68	(12)
Mapping as a Means to Authorize	80	(16)
The Art of Copy	96	(16)
Inner Fold's Curves, and Shifts	112	(12)
Performing Membranes	124	(12)
Datascapes	136	(16)
Meshworks	152	(16)
Euclidean Versus Fluid	168	(16)
Project Chronology	184