50 Hybrid Buildings: Catalogue on the Art of Mixing Uses
a+t research group: Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Mozas
a+t, 2020

Paperback | 5 x 6-1/2 inches | 360 pages | English/Spanish | ISBN: 978-8409188222 | 26.00 ?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Hybrid buildings are urban artifacts which are characterized by the mix of uses. They share a hazardous life, full of obstacles and setbacks. Those which manage to be built and endure are true survivors of a rare and vigorous species that grows in places of opportunity, making its way through the speculative weeds. 
In this Catalogue on the Art of Mixing Uses, a+t research group rescues 50 HYBRID BUILDINGS, designed from the end of the 19th century to the present. Each of them is drawn in section, with its functions in sight, and tells us a stimulating story. 50 HYBRID BUILDINGS is a powerful learning tool for students, faculty and architects combining history, design and graphics to reveal how to break with typology. The a+t research group was founded in 2011 by Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas. Its aim is to spread their research on collective housing, density, mixed uses and public space.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
A little over ten years ago, a+t released three issues of its large-format (9-1/4 x 12-1/2") magazine devoted to mixed-use buildings, or "hybrids," as they preferred to call them. Each issue focused on a particular form of hybrids: Hybrids I on high-rises; Hyb...