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Reading Images Series: Beyond the City

5_20regionalaerialsao-paulo_revised-498x561With:

Bruno Carvalho

Felipe Correa

Eva Franch

Catherine Seavitt

Marion Weiss  

Transnational projects for resource extraction have motivated the development of massive infrastructural corridors. The strategic siting of mining towns, petrochemical encampments, and industrial developments aims to integrate vast geographical and political entities. These experiments promise to advance economic development on a national scale, but their influence on regional and urban constructs tests the agency of architecture and planning at smaller scales.

Projects such as the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), one of the most ambitious transcontinental integration projects in the region, includes the participation of twelve countries. IIRSA serves as the point of departure for conversations about issues of territory, resource extraction urbanism, and transnational negotiations. What is the role of architecture in shaping territories defined by raw resources? How can architecture develop tools to operate beyond the bounds of the traditional metropolis?

Reading Images Series: Beyond the City invites a panel of architects and theorists to examine images of existing and projected urban settlements in the South American continent to reflect upon topics of knowledge transfer, Developmentalism, authorship, and territory.

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Reading Images Series: Beyond the City is organized on the occasion of the launch of Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America by Felipe Correa.











When: Tue., Nov. 15, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
212-431-5795
Price: Free
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5_20regionalaerialsao-paulo_revised-498x561With:

Bruno Carvalho

Felipe Correa

Eva Franch

Catherine Seavitt

Marion Weiss  

Transnational projects for resource extraction have motivated the development of massive infrastructural corridors. The strategic siting of mining towns, petrochemical encampments, and industrial developments aims to integrate vast geographical and political entities. These experiments promise to advance economic development on a national scale, but their influence on regional and urban constructs tests the agency of architecture and planning at smaller scales.

Projects such as the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), one of the most ambitious transcontinental integration projects in the region, includes the participation of twelve countries. IIRSA serves as the point of departure for conversations about issues of territory, resource extraction urbanism, and transnational negotiations. What is the role of architecture in shaping territories defined by raw resources? How can architecture develop tools to operate beyond the bounds of the traditional metropolis?

Reading Images Series: Beyond the City invites a panel of architects and theorists to examine images of existing and projected urban settlements in the South American continent to reflect upon topics of knowledge transfer, Developmentalism, authorship, and territory.

–

Reading Images Series: Beyond the City is organized on the occasion of the launch of Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America by Felipe Correa.

Buy tickets/get more info now