Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City, 1st Edition

.Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Ferda Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan’s design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city.Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City 1st Edition is written by Ferda Kolatan and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City are 9781040035122, 1040035124 and the print ISBNs are 9781032396101, 1032396105. Additional ISBNs include 9781003350569, 9781032396118, 9781040035078.