forA on the Urban Issue #1: Eleven Frictions from an Urbanized World

Tense spaces: Towards an expanded concept of architecture The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical for A on the Urban explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities of fraught spaces? urban frictions? in different parts of the world. Everyday frustrations, manifest inequalities, and social and political conflicts are examined throughout this issue in a process of description, discussion, and designation. The relationships between urban objects reflect the emergence of plurality and coexistence within and beyond what can be seen and understood as urban within an expanded concept of architecture. First issue of the periodical for A on the Urban from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna With contributions by Keller Easterling, Phineas Harper, Hira Nabi, Ou Ning and Xu Tiantian, Lola Sheppard and Mason White, among others Elaborate and innovative design (Studio Lin)for A on the Urban Issue #1: Eleven Frictions from an Urbanized World 1st Edition and published by Birkh?user. ISBNs for for A on the Urban Issue #1 are 9783035628517, 3035628513 and the print ISBNs are 9783035628494, 3035628491.