AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. "Change, " the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape. Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- A. Stories from the Architectural Ghetto
- Ordos: An Orwellian Oasis
- Taiwan: Architectural Disappearance
- Tour and Taxis
- Excerpts of a Lecture
- Arhus Docklands: Escaping the Ghetto
- Eraclea Archipelago
- Maaskant Prize Jury Comments
- Cultural and Commercial Center China
- B. Alternative Urbanities
- Groningen: The Weave
- The Squirrels
- Interview with Lars von Trier
- C. Last Gasp
- Fast Times at Burj Dubai
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Ascension Atomic
- D. Political Identity
- HOP: A Chronology
- Beirut House of Arts and Culture
- Brussells: Calling for Form
- Rue de la Loi
- Belgium Pavilion Shanghai
- Riminiloves.it
- La Brusseleira
- E. Alternate Realities
- Le Passe Muraille
- Guggenheim Rotunda
- Punggol Waterfront Housing
- Interview with Ernesto Neto
- F. Social Performance
- Bergen Fishmarket
- Beliefs of a Loser Trilogy
- Brattora Waterfront
- Posthumous Interview with Hugh Maaskant
- Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Sjakket Youth House: Post-Occupancy
- Maritime Youth House: Post-Occupancy
- Mountain Dwellings: Post-Occupancy
- Copenhagen Harbor Bath: Post-Occupancy
- Kalvebod Wave: Social Amplitudes
- G. Crisis Reclaimed
- New Values for New Design
- Olympia Kwartier
- Crisis Crisis
- Future Crises
- Sustainability Research
- Energy and Climate Crises
- Financial and Media Crises
- HySociety: Post-Occupancy
- Demographic and Political Crises
- Change Outro
- Dochodo Zoological Island
- Why Infrastructure
- Cairo Retail City
- Appendix: HOP Drawing Set
- Project Credits
- Contributors
- Image Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Colophon
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