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Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

Rael, Ronald
Cruz, Teddy
Di Cintio, Marcello

Paperback

Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint

General ArchitectureGeneral ArtGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0520283945
ISBN13: 9780520283947
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A protest against the wall and a forecast about its future.--Allison Arieff, The New York Times

Rael's courageous mixture of subversion and compromise is not going to hide the affront that the border represents to those who live south of it.--London Review of Books

Borderwall as Architecture explores how architects can undermine the wall not just structurally, but conceptually. Today, the wall symbolizes xenophobia and fear. Designs that promote social, economic, and ecological development on both sides of the border could rewrite that narrative. In the past, groups have gathered on both sides of the wall to hold yoga meetups and stage horse races. Rael draws inspiration from these and other examples to highlight opportunities for subversion and change.--Wired

Part historical account, part theoretical appraisal, and part design manifesto, Borderwall as Architecture is reminiscent of Rem Koolhaas' Delirious New York in its sweeping assessment of both the sociocultural peculiarities and outlandish possibilities represented by a prominent structural element.--Architect Magazine

Borderwall As Architecture goes into keen scholarly detail on the walls at the US-Mexico border...Rael offers many such concepts in the book, which often have a whimsy about them that reminds me of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

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