Designing the Rural

A Global Countryside in Flux
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-118-95105-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Architectural Design

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of exploration.

Contributors: Neil Brenner, Christiane Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Sandra Parvu, Cole Roskam, Grahame Shane, Deane Simpson, and Milica Topalovic and Bas Princen

Architects: Anders Abraham, Joshua Bolchover and John Lin (Rural Urban Framework), Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene (Piovenefabi), Rainer Hehl, Stephan Petermann (OMA), Huang Sheng Yuan (FieldOffice), and Sandeep Virmani (Hunnarshala)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolchover, Joshua

Lin, John

Lange, Christiane

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bolchover, Joshua

Lin, John

Lange, Christiane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Guest-Editors 5

Introduction: Where is the Rural in an Urban World? 6

Inventing the Rural: A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside 14

Settling the Nomads: Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 20

Indefinitely Intermediate: Processes of Ruralisation in Chisinau, Moldova 28

Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland: Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region 34

Palm Oil: A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape 42

Notes on Villages as a Global Condition 48

Fieldoffice Architects In Situ: Reflecting on the Rural–Urban Mix in Yilan, Taiwan 58

In the Hands of the People: Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India 66

Designing for an Uncertain Future: Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China 72

The Hunstad Code: Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town 78

The Villages, Florida: Small-town Metropolitanism and the ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 86

New Territories: Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside – The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong 92

The Toshka Project: Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics and Territory in Egypt 98

Best of Both Worlds: Lamenting Our Path to the Future 106

Durana, Albania: A Field of Possibilities 114

The Hinterland, Urbanised? 118

Counterpoint: Don’t Waste Your Time in the Countryside 128

Contributors 134

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Bolchover is an urban researcher, academic and architectural designer. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on understanding urban transformation in China. He exhibited his work, ‘Rural Urban Ecology’ at the Venice Biennale 2010. He is the author with John Lin of Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside (Birkhauser), 2014.

John Lin is an architect based in Hong Kong and currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His current projects include the design of several school buildings, a village community centre, a hospital and a sustainable house prototype in China. He was the overall winner of the Architectural Review’s House Award in 2012 for his “House For All Seasons” a rural house in Shaanxi Province, China.

Christiane Lange is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong. She teaches Urban Design in the Bachelor and Master Program and works in the Community Project Workshop of the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the urbanization process of developing countries.