Recent Publications
Publications
Reimagining the Civic, documenting the Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor Studios. The book focuses on the studios of Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson, of LCLA OFFICE, “The Forest”; Fernanda Canales with David Turturo, “Postprivacy”; and Stella Betts, of LEVENBETTS, “Free Library.”
The students investigated new architectural forms, methods, and interventions for projects that ranged from editing landscapes to reinventing familiar types and designing a house. The studios converged in terms of the civic realm as a multiprogrammatic space allowing for a polyphony of activities. The book deals with the questions arising from its comparative compilation: What is the architect’s agency in the civic discourse of space? How can student works participate in that discourse? With these and more questions in mind, the Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors set out to provoke preconceptions of civic space in architecture, examining old paradigms with exciting updated outlooks. The book was edited by Stav Dror (’22) and Nina Rappaport, designed by Manuel Miranda Studio, and distributed by Actar.
