Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Milijački, Ashley Schafer, Michael Kubo, Amanda Reeser Lawrence (eds.)

OfficeUS Agenda (Catalogue)

OfficeUS Agenda documents the work of the U.S. architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years, and sets new terms in the debate surrounding the architecture and urbanism of tomorrow. Scholarly articles reveal new histories of the expertise, exchange, and export of architectural production and trace a century of U.S. architectural practice and work in a globalized world.

OfficeUS Agenda documents the work of the U.S. architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years, and sets new terms in the debate surrounding the architecture and urbanism of tomorrow. Scholarly articles reveal new histories of the expertise, exchange, and export of architectural production and trace a century of U.S. architectural practice and work in a globalized world.

Edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Milijački, Ashley Schafer, Michael Kubo, Amanda Reeser Lawrence

With contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Beatriz Colomina, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Keller Easterling and many others

Design: Pentagram

16 x 24 cm, 6 ¼ × 9 ½ in

272 pages, 370 illustrations

paperback

2014, 978-3-03778-437-2, English
CHF 30.00

Storefront

Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization that advances innovative and critical ideas at the intersection of architecture, art, and design. Storefront’s
exhibitions, events, competitions, publications, and projects provide alternative platforms for dialogue and collaboration across disciplinary, geographic, and ideological boundaries.

Eva Franch i Gilabert

Eva Franch is an architect, curator, educator and lecturer of experimental forms of art and architectural practice. Franch specializes in the making of alternative architecture histories and futures. Since 2010, she is the Chief Curator and Executive Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture. Franch teaches at The Cooper Union.