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The urban research projects of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman
made the Tijuana-San Diego border region a global laboratory for
engaging the central challenges of urbanization. The projects
engage urban and political confl ict as a creative tool, and
demonstrate the capacity of architecture and design to confront
exclusion and homogenization in the city, and propose alternative
strategies for more inclusive urban development.
By the People: Designing a Better America--the third volume in
Cooper Hewitt's series on socially responsible design, which began
with Design for the Other 90%--examines how design is effectively
challenging poverty and social inequality across America. The book
explores current social, economic and environmental issues in
America with a particular focus on marginalized and underserved
communities. By the People features design projects organized into
six working themes: Act, Save, Share, Live, Learn and Make. It is a
true manual--in format and content--featuring design solutions that
expand access to education, food, health care and affordable
housing; increase social and economic inclusion; offer improved
alternative transportation options, and provide a balanced approach
to land use between the built and natural environments. Cooper
Hewitt Curator Cynthia E. Smith traveled to post-industrial cities,
urban areas impacted by natural disasters, sprawling cities, places
of persistent poverty and major metropolitan regions. Her research
yielded nearly 400 potential projects from over 30 states and three
indigenous nations (Navajo, Lakota, Pueblo). Smith met with local
designers, community members and organizations. Her research was
guided by the following questions: where does poverty exist? Why
are poverty numbers increasing? What populations and communities
are most affected? Who are the individuals, organizations and
networks that are creating innovative and systemic approaches
through design? What are the local, regional and scalable design
solutions? In addition to the highly illustrated project profiles,
By the People contains essays by, and interviews with, those
designers and architects building the innovative and systemic
approaches being developed through design.
Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand
grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical
barrier that divides the United States of America from the United
Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the
wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of
propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall
is an opportunity for economic and social development along the
border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the
book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a
"third nation"-the Divided States of America. On the way the
transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the
natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through
the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the
wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways.
Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the
wall, created by Rael's studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or
question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and
meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall,
which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an
attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a
collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by
leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di
Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
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