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Curating Earth: The Practice of Everyday Architecture
Hardcover
ArchitectsGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology
Publisher Price: $65.00
ISBN13: 9781972474020
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 356
Language: English
Curating Earth: The Practice of Everyday Architecture reflects on two decades of design by INI Design Studio--not through a conventional monograph, but through a series of deeply reflective dialogues.
What defines INI's ethos is not a fixed aesthetic language, but a set of ten design drivers that allow the studio to approach each project as uniquely situated. The Design Drivers are not rules, but lenses--flexible, evolving principles that respond to each project and its context. The dialogues--staged between architects, planners, theorists, and students--form the heart of the book. They critically examine these drivers and reveal how they are woven into everyday practice. As these exchanges show, INI does not merely describe buildings; it probes the values, constraints, and aspirations that give rise to them.
Spanning 40 projects and richly illustrated across 356 pages, the book explores how architecture can remain responsive in a time of ecological urgency, digital acceleration, and shifting human needs. It begins with ancient concepts like technē--the ethical, skillful practice of making--and moves through contemporary discussions on technology, sustainability, and aesthetics, ultimately returning to questions of beauty, justice, and the condition of being human, of being-in-the-world.
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