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Home » Authors » Aleksandr Bierig

Aleksandr Bierig

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The Urban Fix

Review of 'The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation'

By Douglas Kelbaugh
Aleksandr Bierig
February 13, 2020
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Douglas Kelbaugh argues that cities are a frontline in the “war” against climate change and need to be reoriented through urban planning and design.
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Critical Care

Review of 'Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet'

Edited by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny
Aleksandr Bierig
September 27, 2019
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A book of essays and building case studies explores the meaning of "care" as it relates to architecture and urbanism.


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The Perplexities of Keeping Fit

Maintenance Architecture

By Hilary Sample
Aleksandr Bierig
April 1, 2017
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Washing, dusting, scraping, patching, and other overlooked acts of upkeep triggered Hilary Sample to direct her attention toward a subject at once forgotten and self-evident.


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The Cult of Destruction

Obsolescence: An Architectural History

Aleksandr Bierig
September 1, 2016
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While all buildings are subject to the decay and ruin brought by time, historian Daniel Abramson is concerned in this book with a different culprit: obsolescence, or the process of becoming “obsolete.”


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The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Aleksandr Bierig
April 1, 2016
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A traveling exhibition, now closed, is well documented in a book of the same name.


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The Ford Foundation

Modernity and the Monument: Renovating the Ford Foundation

Aleksandr Bierig
February 1, 2016
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A legendary landmark of architecture showcased in RECORD in 1968 faces a controversial interior renovation.


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Columbia GSAPP's New Dean Amale Andraos Speaks

Aleksandr Bierig
November 19, 2014
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The newly appointed dean of Columbia University's architecture school discusses the challenges ahead.
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Buildings Must Die

Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Aleksandr Bierig
October 16, 2014
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There's something funny about architectural theory. It takes the building—one of the heaviest and most solid artifacts of human production—and evacuates it of any relation to the physical world.


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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit

Aleksandr Bierig
December 16, 2013
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By Witold Rybczynski, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2013, 368 pages, $27. Sense and Sensibility in Design Today At several points throughout his new book, Witold Rybczynski invokes Steen Eiler Rasmussen's classic text Experiencing Architecture (1959). Rybczynski, until recently professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as an architectural critic for an array of publications. When he studied architecture in the late 1960s at McGill University, he tells us one of his teachers was a Rasmussen disciple. In How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, Rybczynski follows faithfully the central tenets of his predecessor. Both books organize architectural design into
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Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture

Aleksandr Bierig
November 15, 2013
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By Rowan Moore. Harper Design, August 2013, 400 pages, $30. The View From Across the Pond As he indicates in the title of his new book, British architecture critic Rowan Moore sets out to joust with Big Questions. What is the relationship between political and economic power and architectural patronage? How does active human desire translate into the latent desires embedded in architectural space? What is the relationship between the longing for home and the urge to wander? In addressing these concerns, Moore revels in ambiguities, selecting examples to support widely differing interpretations. Drawing mostly from the 20th century, he
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