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Le Corbuffet (Prestel Publishing, 2019)
Le Corbuffet is an artist’s book in the form of a conceptual cookbook. The project, originally based on participatory events held in Choi’s Brooklyn apartment, features recipes inspired by works of art and design to explore the notion of cultural consumption and the role that historical narratives play in the increasing privatization and commoditization of culture. The book was nominated for a 2020 James Beard Foundation Photography Award and the winner of a 2019 AIGA Award.
Designed by Studio Lin.
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Architecture Is All Over, edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City), 2017
An investigation of architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century.
As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, the history of science, media studies, and philosophy. Together these pieces probe architecture's relationship to liminal zones and immaterial systems, reframing instability and mutability as enduring qualities that form architecture's motive core—a perspectival shift that carries with it new possibilities for architectural agency and resistance.
Contributors
Matthew Allen & Cyrus Peñarroyo, Caitlin Berrigan, Adrian Blackwell, Keith Bresnahan, D. Graham Burnett, Jill H. Casid, dpr-barcelona & Francesco Vedovato, David Gissen, John Harwood, K. Michael Hays, Patty Heyda, Sandi Hilal, John J. May, Marta Guerra Pastrián & Pablo Pérez Ramos, Trevor Patt, Troy Schaum & Rosalyne Shieh, Jonathan Tate, Olga Touloumi, and Andrew Witt.
Designed by Neil Donnelly and Ben Fehrman-Lee.
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Architecture At the Edge of Everything Else, edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (MIT Press, 2010)
An examination of architecture as it comes in contact with other disciplines in the contemporary world.
Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else investigates the inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locates architecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape—the space it actually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comes into contact with other disciplines—including art, art history, cultural studies, curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, and urbanism—the book considers architecture's precarious position at the edge: at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of “everything else.”
Contributors
Brett Albert, Matthew Allen, Esther Choi, Teddy Cruz, Suzanne Ernst, Liam Gillick, K. Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, Michael Meredith, Yu Morishita, Trevor Patt, Philippe Rahm, Joe Ringenberg, Jonathan Tate, Marrikka Trotter, Douglas Wu
Designed by Omnivore.