Architecture of Normal
Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape
Daniel Kaven
Birkhäuser, February 2022
Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 456 pages | 450 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783035624380 | ?62
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as it continues to adapt to patterns of human movement.
Daniel Kaven is an architect and artist in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding partner in the office of William / Kaven Architecture. REFERRAL LINKS:
REVIEW:
On page 244 of Architecture of Normal, in a chapter devoted to cars, architect and artist Daniel Kaven asserts, "Derivatecture had fully arrived." Apparently a neologism of Kaven's and a portmanteau of "derivative" and "architecture," "derivatecture" refers to buildings that are replicas of older buildings. Kaven first mentions the term in an early chapter about his upbringing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a younger he noticed that a black-glazed building not far from his home was "an exact replica of an office building that was already standing in Texas." Such an example is quaint compared to t...
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