BFDO Architects
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908967994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Founded in 2007 and led by its principal Alexandra Barker, BFDO Architects works across sectors to probe the division between public and private space. At the heart of the practice is a long-term investigation into how materials, structures and systems inform, reshape and blur this distinction. BFDO Architects principal Alexand
At the heart of the practice is a long-term investigation into how materials, structures and systems inform, reshape and blur this distinction. About the Author Founded in 2007 and led by its principal Alexandra Barker, BFDO Architects works across sectors to probe the division between public and private space. BFDO Architects principal Alexandra Barker is currently an associate professor and the coordinator of the MArch programme at the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Department (GAUD) in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York, where she has taught since 2001.
Flowing through a thematic structure that is porous and intersectional, BFDO Architects is not intended as a round-up of independent projects but instead presents itself as a selected outcome from a larger cluster of ongoing material and spatial research. This publication situates BFDO Architects? work in the context of topical discussions including ecology and the landscape, multigenerational architecture and design, and the role of fabrication technologies in producing new relationships to space and place. Emblematic of a new generation of architects and designers that work across typologies and scales to answer the stakes of architecture and design within the twenty-first century, BFDO Architects navigate topics of public space and cir