Agenda: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis? | 
| Author: JDS Architects
Creators: Benedict Clouette, Jesse Seegers, Julien De Smedt, Ryan Neiheiser
Publisher: Actar
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 536,925
Media: Paperback
Pages: 544
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 8496954986
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9788496954984
Publication Date: January 15, 2010
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Product Description
AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. Change, the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape. Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects.
AGENDA is a record of search and research, providing more questions than answers.
AGENDA is unapologetically naive.
AGENDA is an unorthodox architecture novel.
AGENDA demystifies the practice of architecture, revealing process, research, fun, and failure.
AGENDA looks to both the past and the future.
Contributors:
Tom Avermaete , Seleçao Brusseleira , Angelo Consoli , Hans Ibelings , Geoff Manaugh , Brendan McGetrick , Ernesto Neto , Hans Ulrich Obrist , Albert Ravestein , Pascal Smet , Michael Speaks , Lars von Trier , Barbara Vanderlinden , Robert Winkel , Bruce Sterling , Sozyone Gonzalez , Bruno Brunet , Eric Corijn , Roland Legrand , Hugh Maaskant , Cleon Peterson
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voyeuristic insight May 31, 2010
David Cuthbert (JAMAICA)
Written on the cusp of the global financial downfall, AGENDA prompts the question, what can architecture learn from crisis? What threads and strategies lie within this modality that can sustain a new means of architectural practice? At 544 pages, this book is ample; comprised of a running dialogue of interviews, images of project progress and deadlines, providing voyeuristic insight into JDS architects. The narrative of projects, a format likely borrowed from de Smedt's mentor Rem Koolhaas (Content, 2004) is harrowingly engaging. Teetering on the ambitious, AGENDA never glibly offers solutions making this stellar read, a smart new generation of monograph.
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