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Description:
Multi-National City follows three architectural itineraries through three cities and their histories. Like so many, these cities are caught within the feedback loops of globalization: Silicon Valley in northern California; New York's internal suburbias; and Gurgaon, a burgeoning corporate city outside of New Delhi. Each exhibits a distinct character, while together, they also form important nodes in what the authors describe as a single Multi-National City (MNC) stretching across the globe. The itineraries traced through them take the reader on a tour of the architectural monuments of corporate globalization-corporate campuses, high-rise towers, “public” atriums, call centers, and gated communities-that tracks their shared logic, their internal discrepancies, and their undeniable strangeness. Each itinerary concludes with an unannounced stop at an architectural project that applies the lessons of the Multi-National City to itself.
Biography:
Martin / Baxi Architects is an architectural practice in New York. Both partners are practicing architects.Reinhold Martin is also the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003). Kadambari Baxi is the principle designer of the multimedia design firm imageMachine. The work of Martin / Baxi Architects has been featured in Entropia (Black Dog Publishing, 2000).
Reviews:
¨Wonderfully designed. Not only does the graphic design of the text reinforce the connected loops of the global network, but the book itself "opens" into two, so the reader can take in the text with or without the photographs...¨ Archidose
