Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism poses a fundamental question:
What is architecture’s capacity to change?
Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism
By MODU
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
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The Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism calls for a shift in environmental thinking, designing for exchanges between architecture and the city that are both outside-in and inside-out. The concept of indoor urbanism merges the opposing scales of urbanism and interiors, prompting architecture’s borders to recede.
Co-authored by Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, the book is an
analogue to walking through three cities: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. Through design projects, drawings, essays, and conversations, each city demonstrates its own form of indoor urbanism. An essential question is raised: in the face of the climate crisis, what is architecture’s capacity to change?
Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism is part of the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library. It has been reviewed by Metropolis magazine and recognized by The Architect’s Newspaper in its annual list of the best architecture-related books.
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Texts by: Phu Hoang, Rachely Rotem
Graphic Design: MGMT.Design
2023
216 Pages, 120 Ills.
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5118-6
