Enduring Innocence
By Keller Easterling
By Keller Easterling
Category: Arts & Entertainment
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$30.00
Sep 28, 2007 | ISBN 9780262550659
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Praise
A bracing and timely approach…. It frees us from the bankrupt notion that, as designers, we can merely venture to consider ethics and aesthetics as zero-sum alternatives.—Thomas de Monchaux, Architect’s Newspaper—
[Easterling] successfully shows how organizational logics are providing generic specification for assembling spaces for North Korean tourism, Spanish high-tech agricultural landscapes, East Asian container ports, Indian IT (information technology) campuses, golf courses, retail franchises, pirates, and terrorism around the world.
—Journal of Architectural Education—Keller Easterling’s Enduring Innocence charts a tour of the guilty pleasures of post-global network protocols…. Keller Easterling makes global capital palpable.
—Mason White, Archinect—Enduring Innocence is a subtle and poetic mediation on the state of the contemporary world. The book exhibits the author’s virtuosity in sifting through diverse landscapes…. The many urbanisms thus exposed provide us with a precise and complex platform for unraveling the nature of the global everyday.
—Vyjayanthi Rao, Constructs—… Enduring Innocence is truly a tour de force tour-guide for today because it doesn’t wield its case studies and field trips as paradigms that we should all now imitate (or even, morally avoid). Don’t bother looking for a contemporary Acropolis. It isn’t here. There is no easy prescription in Easterling’s parables. No clear moral waters to wade through in the knowledge that it’s only a Disney ride, that the sharks won’t bite, and the mermaids will triumph.
—Shumon Basar, Domus—Enduring Innocence makes three contributions to architectural discourse and more broadly to critical enquiry. It brings a new perspective to both visible and invisible objects, articulates a methodology commensurate with the questions posed, and speculates on the multiple guises that politically informed architectural intervention might take.
—Building Research & Information—21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
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