Archilab 2008: Strategic Architecture

ArchiLab has increasingly become a major event in the field of contemporary architecture and research and this 8th edition focused on the urban architectural transformations that are taking place across Europe. This catalogue presents the core ideas and visions floated around at the conference while providing case studies of some 50 major projects or master-plans occurring in European cities and areas. Texts from some 15 authors are accompanied by such concepts as territory networking, polymerisation, re-animation, implantation and re-labelling operations and examined in relation to leading projects by architects such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Vincente Guallart.