Publications

After two decades of exploration and experimentation, land-form architecture, characterized by the smooth and literal merging of site form to built form, has reached an apparent impasse. Its predominant expression to date has been horizontal, with emphasis on connectivity, continuity, and the dissolution of boundaries. What remains to be seen, however, is how the inexorable horizontality of land-form architecture can be resolved with the contemporary city—and its concomitant values of density, economy, and an essential verticality. In Boundary Issues: Built Form, Site Form, Urban Form we extrapolate from a survey of recent land-form projects to posit a theory of urbanism that would situate land-form architecture in the modern megalopolis. Our approach has the potential to reconcile two heretofore opposed objectives: the modernist ideal of access to light, air and greenery, and post-modernist notions of traditional street-making urbanism. As the rate of global urbanization accelerates, in parallel with ecological, cultural, and political systems under stress, this could not be more timely.

– Austin Sakong, FXCollaborative





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