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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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This book, written primarily for architects and architecture students, is about a designed city still in formation that has no master plan, no imposed ordering devices, and no hierarchical networks of infrastructure. The strange buildings placed among dunes and grasslands reflect instead the mind’s translation of urban and natural phenomena relative to the construction of memory and a process of composition that is not dependent on stylistic precedents, drawing boards, or academic discourse.