When Urbanization Comes to Ground: CAZA + SUBRA

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When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe.

Drawing upon case studies including projects in China, Colombia, and the Philippines, this book works across place, time, and culture to offer an allegorical journey into urbanisation at large. When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a loosely congregated collection of essays that reflect an aggregation of encounters with urban circumstances physical and immaterial, and structural and affective. From Robots, Utilidors, and a Brave New World to A Third Way Towards Metropolitanism and Tagging Thingness and Scale, this publication questions the role of architecture and its related disciplines in the wake of the master plan.

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"Nowadays, there are so many ways to look at, think of, present and represent cities and towns, but this book undoubtedly provides students of urbanism with one of the most dynamic ones by framing a kaleidoscope of the fast-changing urban worlds." ZHANG JIE Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing
"When Urbanization Comes to Ground is an incredibly well grounded speculation on the future of architecture, cities and human intervention on this planet more generally. The arguments in the book provoke us to think about Urban Design practice as plastic and nimble in a world where the virtual and grounded are simultaneously valid as the condition for city making." RAHUL MEHROTRA Architect and professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University
"Where is urban design going at a time marked by the diversification of types and programs, as well as by the rise of digital modeling Moving deftly from concrete projects to speculations regarding new modes of urbanization at the regional scale, mobilizing data analysis as well as fiction, this book provides original insights into the new challenges facing designers in an age of global urbanization." ANTOINE PICON G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and director of research at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

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Carlos Arnaiz is an architect, educator, writer, and urban design consultant. He is the CEO & co-founder of SURBA, the founder and principal of CAZA, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Pratt Institute. Peter G. Rowe is the co-founder and Chairman of SURBA. He is also the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard from 1992 to 2004.