[audiobook] Hot Rodding in Ventura County (Images of America) by Tony Baker in Arts-Photography

Description

The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices; airports; houses; and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts -- they are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure; Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages; and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change; to mistakes; anomalies; and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these irregularities opportunistically; she offers architects working within the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering space.By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing; Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments; virtual and physical systems; highway and communication networks; and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities; but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable.