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Places for Strangers

Ideas for Places, People and the City by Mæ architects

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Philosophy, vision and work of London-based Mæ architects


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By Alex Ely, Michael Howe, Shumi Bose
2014
Paperback
164 pages, 25 color and 75 b/w illustrations
17 x 24 cm
ISBN 978-3-906027-40-1

A compelling mixture of manifesto and manual, Places for Strangers builds on the set of principles and attitudes that have long driven London-based Mæ architects to advocate a new position on urban design and architecture, while also elucidating an approach to actually producing critically engaged design. Previously published in other publications and architectural journals or adapted from lectures, the essays featured here are polemic in their nature, aimed at illustrating the sociopolitical, ethical, and formal concerns that must be navigated in architecture today. Complementing the essays are contemporary analyses and revisitations of a number of Mæ architects’ projects that serve to illustrate how the firm’s core principles—themselves always in a state of renegotiation—can be enacted in actual designs and building projects. The result is sure to inspire creative new thinking about architecture and its place in contemporary society.

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«Highlight des abheftbaren Buches in sei­nem petrolfarbenen Pappumschlag sind die thematischen Aufsätze […]. Allesamt flott geschrieben und gespickt mit einem Hauch britischem Humor, dürften sie jedem architekturgeschicht­lich und entwurfstheoretisch interessier­ten Leser gefallen.» Luise Rellensmann, Baunetzwoche

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