Operative Mapping: Maps as Design Tools
Roger Paez
Actar Publishers / ELISAVA, March 2020

Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches | 324 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1948765077 | $49.95

Publisher's Description:
The book?s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions.
The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins to­gether a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning, and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones. Roger Paez is an architect, professor and researcher. Architect (ETSAB 1998, Hons.), MS AAD (Columbia University 2000, Honor Award for Excellence in Design), PhD (UPC 2015, Excel?lent cum laude). Professional experience in the studios of Alison and Peter Smithson and Enric Miralles.
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