Suprarural Architecture: Atlas of Rural Protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas

Description

The Atlas of rural protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure, land subdivision, agricultural production, water management, storage and maintenance, human habitation, animal management, land management. Each of these systems possesses a number of organizational types, material components, normative relationships, and spectra of performance, which become available through a manual of instructions for a Suprarural architectural environment. The research is based on a realistic-overriding ethics towards design that operates by abstracting and intensifying unexplored territorial phenomena.

Dean at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Architecture and Urban Studies and Design Critic at the Harvard GSD, Ciro Najle was Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design and Diploma Master at the Architectural Association, and taught at Cornell, Columbia, the Berlage Institute, the UTFSM Valparaiso, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Visiting Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Architecture, Lluis Ortega is co-founder of Sio2 Arch (formerly F451arquitectura). Before UIC, he taught at ETSAL, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien, ETSAM, Harvard GSD, ETSAB and the University of Alicante.