Hey-oh.
This week, our book, American Framing: The Same Something for Everyone, will finally be available (we think!) in North America for all you North American consumers of books! Just like the entire project and all the exhibitions of the work were all pretty thrilled to be able for all of you to finally see the wonderful book. It has a few fold out pages of drawings too. This is your last week to pre-order it. Then youll just have to purchase it normally after than. And also, as always, just bug bug bug your local or school library to buy copies for the shelves. Then you can read it and not spend anything, except when you buy it as a gift for others. Link in the website linked in the bio.
#americanframing #uspavilion #biennalearchitettura2020 #biennalearchitettura2021
Hey-o culture lovers of the world. After plenty of time we are very happy to announce that the book of the project of the us pavilion of the biennale of venice of the year of 2021 is printing or printed and will be available to buy or to bug your library to buy you can can check out very soon. March in the EU and June in North America and the world. Park Books was patient and supportive enough to publish. Here's what the back of the cover says:
American Framing The Same Something for Everyone
From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing—also known at the time as “Chicago construction”—quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class distinctions: no amount of money can buy you a better 2x4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country’s high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture.
American Framing is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new—the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.
With contributions and texts by Pablo Alvarado and Harold Meyerson, Paul Andersen, Catherine Caufield, Penelope Dean, Dan Handel, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ania Jaworska, Thomas Kelley and Carrie Norman, Adam Kotsko, Stephen H. Norwood, Paul Preissner, Daniel Shea, Chris Strong, and Ernest Wilkins. Edited by Paul Andersen, Jayne Kelley, and Paul Preissner. Graphic design by Joe Gilmore. #biennalearchitettura2021 #americanframing #uspavilion
