{"id":1457,"date":"2010-01-19T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2010-01-19T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:54:18","slug":"the-landscape-of-contemporary-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/the-landscape-of-contemporary-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the landscape of contemporary infrastructure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Tick has a review of a new publication, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Landscape-Contemporary-Infrastructure-Kelly-Shannon\/dp\/9056627201\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1263914553&#038;sr=8-1\">The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure<\/a>, which catalogs a variety of (mostly high-profile) infrastructural projects designed by architects in the past couple decades.  Though I haven&#8217;t read the book, the first point of critique that Urban Tick makes is quite astute and demonstrates a common problem in the architectural adoption of infrastructure as an aesthetic mode (regardless of whether it is an accurate critique of the book, though I have no reason to believe it isn&#8217;t):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first [problem] is the conceptualisation of infrastructure in independent \u2018objects\u2019. This approach clearly follows the iconic presentation of architectural projects of the OMA or Herzog and de Meuron type&#8230; It fits the current, self promoted architectural \u2018Zeitgeist\u2019 of iconic, distinct, clean projects. However it misses the opportunity to establish infrastructure as something more than an \u2018object\u2019, but rather a collection of \u2018objects\u2019 or even better a network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, to extend that line of criticism a bit, it misses that the most exciting and useful thing about infrastructure as an object of architectural design is the capacity of infrastructure to affect the urban system around it; read Urban Tick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/urbantick.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/book-landscape-of-contemporary.html\">full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>[link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ethel_baraona\">@ethel_baraona<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Tick has a review of a new publication, The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure, which catalogs a variety of (mostly high-profile) infrastructural projects designed by architects in the past couple decades. Though I haven&#8217;t read the book, the first point of critique that Urban Tick makes is quite astute and demonstrates a common problem in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[843,848],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-architecture","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}