MONU #14 - EDITING URBANISM

Despite the current urgency to deal with the enormous potential of the already existing urban material as Urban Editors, there seems still to be an enormous lack of interest in topics such as urban and architectural restoration, preservation, renovation, redevelopment, renewal or adaptive reuse of old structures among architects and urban designers. But ignorance in this matter can only be dismissed as socially irresponsible and economically and culturally unacceptable. But what might be the reason for the prevailing ignorance? Who is to blame? Why is Urban Editing considered to be so utterly unattractive? Felix Madrazo, one of the members of the UNION3 collective, blames the media and in particular architecture publications, as he points out in UNION3's discussion of urban renewal entitled "The Naked Lunch: A Stark Honest Discussion on Renewal". He states that a prestigious architectural magazine such as the Spanish El Croquis would never publish an architect who has been practicing renewal for the last twenty years. In OMA's contribution "Extreme Demolition and Extreme Preservation" Rem Koolhaas holds the arrogance of the modernists responsible for making the preservationist of today look like a futile and irrelevant figure. He furthermore claims that preservation necessitates the development of a theory of its opposite: not what to keep, but what to give up, what to erase and what to abandon - and proposes a system of phased demolition...Find more text on http://www.monu-magazine.com/issues.htm

Table of Contents:

The Naked Lunch: A Stark Honest Discussion On Renewal by UNION3
On Politics of Planning by Henk Ovink
Beyond Editing by Simone Pizzagalli
Extreme Demolition and Extreme Preservation by OMA
Apoptotic Woomera 2035 by Lucas Dean
Eternal Ise by Jarrik Ouburg
Moveable Chair by Sara Hendren
What not to Do: A Case for Designed Neglect by Sean Burkholder
Deadly Serious - Interview with Adolfo Natalini by Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer
In the Name of the Past by Beatriz Ramo - STAR strategies + architecture
Cultural Editors by Paul Meurs and Marinke Steenhuis
The Digital Habitat and Urban Design as Emerging Practice by Jan Bovelet and Miodrag Kuč
Between Material and Culture by Ephraim Joris
Controlling the City by Michiel van Iersel, Juha van 't Zelfde, and Ben Cerveny
Layered Reality by Gijs Hoofs and Michiel Daalmans
Urban Field Manuals by Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, and Brett Milligan
This Is Not an Empty Plot by Patrizia Di Monte
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Excerpts from MONU's Most Valuable Urbanism Debate

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