Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies: An Architecture...
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Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies: An Architecture
By César A. Lopez and Jeffrey S. Nesbit
Book Talk
Fri, Nov 13, 12 PM
Campbell Van Lengen Lobby
Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies by César A. Lopez and Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an investigation for identifying and documenting the infrastructural and architectural typologies along political boundaries. By revisiting building typology as a method, this book purposefully meets the entanglement between architecture and power structures. The study of the architectural type and the interrogation of architecture's role become central to social and political change.
Through this inquiry, Lopez and Nesbit catalog an architectural type across diverse historical and geopolitical scales, from the interior to vast territories of remote land, to reveal the edges of architecture and delaminate the boundaries of our contemporary design discourse.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
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About the Authors
César A. Lopez is a first-generation Mexican American architectural designer, researcher, and educator who draws on his upbringing in the Mexico-United States Border Region as critical knowledge to explore the entanglements between architecture, territory, and the politics that dictate them. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He co-directs FRONTERA-NATION with Germán Pallares-Avitia, a design, research, and advocacy practice that re-frames political borders as a constellation of sites and identities.
Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. His experience spanning almost twenty years includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with managing sponsored design research projects for city governments, local institutions, and NGOs. Nesbit’s research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of "technical lands." His current research projects explore the architecture and infrastructure of planetary ports, the American rocket launch complex, and distant sites at the ends of the world. He is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.
