• Shelfie: The Future of Architecture in 100 buildings

Author: Marc Kushner
Hard cover: 176 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/TED
Language: English
Dimensions: 5.0 x 0.7x 7 inches
Book Price: US$ 11.25
Publishing Year: 2015

This 2015 mind opening book rightfully says that more can be asked from Architecture to bring life and innovation to produce an accurate back-drop to our divergent, creative and active society. Mark Kushner considers the public to be a partner in Architecture and he invites him into asking simple yet critical questions together with the designer in the hope of pushing the envelope towards the unknowable future. 

Shelfie: The Future of Architecture in 100 buildings


In this jaw dropping piece of literature, Architizer founder, and an architect in his own right finds himself in a pivotal role as a journalist and architect to draw inspirations into aspects that will define and shape the future of architecture. He delves into the questions we daily ask of architecture, into the expectations that we give upon the pieces of built environment that we put up and he reckons these are the questions whose responses will define our future.

Shelfie: The Future of Architecture in 100 buildings

The buildings hail from all seven continents (Africa featured in 9 pristine projects), offering a truly global perspective on what lies ahead with. The provoking, thought enticing and eclectic mix of his choices in this witty and insightful book. 

Shelfie: The Future of Architecture in 100 buildings

 

The projects in Africa include: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape town S.A, Mapungubwe Interpretation Center, S.A, Botswana innovation hub, Botswana, Mamelodi Pod housing unit, S.A, Women’s Opportunity Center, Rwanda, Opera Village, Burkina Faso, Football training Center, S.A., Biblotheca Alexandria, Egypt and Dune (Concept) Sahara Desert.

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