Marc Angélil Livres

Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as-yet dormant potential of these towns through a series of design scenarios. Cairo Desert Cities underscores the value of re-engaging in modernist town planning, for wiping away the dust of past failures may uncover the contours of future opportunities. With over 300 illustrations, this clothbound edition is an engaging and visually rich introduction to the urban development of Greater Cairo, the largest urban area in Africa, and the practices that have shaped it.

A manual that conveys the fundamentals of architectonic design while also providing a novel didactic approach to the presentation of course material: individual design steps are illustrated by student projects.

The third volume in the Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form series, Empower! addresses contemporary power relations and their effects on urban and natural landscapes in the age of the Anthropocene, a nascent geological epoch defined by human activity. In order to better grasp the role of architecture and planning today, the publication explores urban transformations through the added lens of political ecology. Understanding the political, economic, and social factors of humanity’s profound effects on the biosphere not only illuminates the interests underpinning environmental change, but also points to more sustainable ways of securing the great amount of resources that rapid urbanization cannot be sustained without. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, the book explores geopolitics in the Amazon, infrastructural subtraction in Ecuador, circulatory urbanism in Mumbai, and urban development on Brazil’s frontier. With contributions by Paulo Tavares (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador), Keller Easterling (Yale University, New Haven), Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava (Institute for Urbanology, Mumbai/Goa) and Rainer Hehl (ETH Zurich, TU Berlin).

Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgenössische urbane Phänomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der äthiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien für die Städtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.

Informalize! is the first book in the Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form series developed at WERK 11, a research hub of the ETH Zurich bringing together the various fields that have an impact on today’s urban conditions. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, this collection of four essays presents a cross-section of urban informality drawing on broader theoretical frameworks as well as case studies from Casablanca, Belgrade, and the Global South. Reading the city of yesterday as the physical manifestation of the failure of the urban economy to meet the needs of a growing population, Informalize! turns to the city of today and tomorrow as the representation of a paradigmatic shift toward new social, political, and economic orders and ways of collecting and applying urban knowledge. With contributions by Ananya Roy (University of California, Berkeley), Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics), Milica Topalovic (ETH Studio Basel), and Tom Avermaete (Delft University of Technology).

A critical survey of design experiments on sustainability undertaken by renowned Zurich and Los Angeles-based firm agps architecture. Flux Redux explores design experiments undertaken at agps architecture in Zurich and Los Angeles over the past three decades. The book addresses the evolution of a body of work relative to the evolution of environmental discourse, reflecting on the shifting relations between technology and sustainability in architecture. The presented case studies record changes in how architecture is thought about and how it is made. They also offer observations on the never-ending task of overcoming failures and setbacks via more trial and error to make each building a more sustainable agent of a larger environmental system. Flux Redux features nine essays by agps architecture’s partners Marc Angélil, Manuel Scholl, Sarah Graham, and Matěj Draslar that are supplemented with hundreds of documents from the firm’s archive. Further contributions are provided by structural engineer Ernst Hofmann, design studies scholar Margarete von Lupin, as well as architect and urban researcher Rainer Hehl. A new translation of Álvaro Siza’s essay Living a House on maintenance and stewardship rounds out this volume. 

At 9 AM on November 5, 2018, a pair of buildings in central Marseille collapsed, taking the lives of eight people hailing from Algeria, the Comoros, France, Italy, and Tunisia. This devastating toll of urban decay reflects both the diversity of the district and the hardship of living in Marseille, a city marked for centuries by migration, poverty, and social struggle. Divided along ethnicity and class lines, with wealthy conservatives dominating the south and an energetic but pauperized community of immigrant origins in the north, Marseille highlights the tensions stemming from problematic governance, a lack of housing-stock maintenance, a constant influx of migrants, widespread privatization of services, and rapid, profit-driven, and destructive post-industrial urbanization.Migrant Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity examines this complex city through a series of case studies of its built environment, from Le Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse to La Castellane, the impoverished public housing project that is the birthplace of football star Zinedine Zidane. The essays, photographs, and drawings illustrate the impact of migration on space, architecture, and territory. Migrant Marseille tells of an urban reality in which migration is present at every turn, and offers tactics and strategies to support social and spatial integration.

Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth ist eine Sammlung von Darstellungen der Erdkugel über die letzten 2000 Jahre hinweg – von einer Skulptur des Farnese Atlas aus dem 2. Jh, bei dem die Himmelskugel schwer auf den Schultern des Titanen lastet, bis hin zu einer der vielen „Fridays for Future“ Demonstrationen, bei denen ein riesiger Erdball über den Köpfe der Schüler und Studenten hinweg balanciert wird. Die gesammelten Abbildungen, jeweils ergänzt mit einer kurzen Beschreibung, stellen Wunder neben Monstrositäten, das Alltägliche neben das Exotische und das Wissenschaftliche neben das Künstlerische. In ihrer Vielstimmigkeit eröffnet die Bildersammlung nicht nur einen Diskurs darüber, wie wir die Welt sehen, sondern auch, wie unsere Welt als Kompendium konkurrierender Erzählungen konstruiert ist, die unser Weltbild, unser Menschenbild sowie unser eigenes Selbstbild prägen und bestätigen.

Mirroring Effects analysiert politische und ökonomische Praktiken, die unsere heutige Umwelt gestalten. Die vorgestellten Fallstudien untersuchen die Beziehung zwischen Urbanisierungsprozessenund Kapitalismus. Zusammen erzählen die Geschichten von der fortschreitenden Umstrukturierung von gebauten und bewohnten Räumen in sehr unterschiedlichen Regionen des so genannten Globalen Südens und des Globalen Nordens. Während die beiden Teile dieses Bandes entlang dieses politischen und wirtschaftlichen Äquators geteilt sind, verwischen die Geschichten genau diese Unterscheidung und machen deutlich, dass die Expansion des freien Marktes sowohl entwickelte als auch sich entwickelnde Regionen so weit miteinander verstrickt hat, dass solche Gegensätze nicht mehr bestehen. Die vorgestellten Fallstudien untersuchen den Verlauf der kapitalgetriebenen Entwicklung in Kontexten wie Addis Abeba, Mumbai, Kairo, São Paulo, Berlin, Paris und Shanghai.