Assemble
Subtitle: how we build = wie wir bauen
By: Angelika Fitz, Katharina Ritter, Architekturzentrum Wien (ed./hg.).
Contributors: Architektur Zentrum Wien; Assemble (Architectural firm)
Series: Hintergrund -- 55; Hintergrund (Vienna, Austria) -- 55.
Publisher: Park Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9783038600770
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Modern Arts; Modern Architecture; Assemble (Architectural firm)
Other titles: How we build; Wie wir bauen
Work titles: Assemble (Exhibition catalog : Architektur Zentrum Wien)
Description: Assemble: How we build' offers a first comprehensive insight into the work and projects of the London-based architecture collective Assemble. How we build, how things are made and materials are assembled, reflects the social, economic and political conditions of a society. Changing the status-quo by community action is a focal point in the work of Assemble, who have developed a signature blend of social activation, poetic spaces and ecological and economic sustainability. Assemble's 18 members started their collaboration in 2010, following their graduation from Cambridge University. Their portfolio comprises diverse projects such as a temporary cinema at a former petrol station, affordable workspaces for artists, the foundation of social enterprises, the revitalization of a former working-class neighbourhood, or designing a new art gallery for Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2015, Assemble was awarded with Turner Prize, the first architects to win Europe's most prestigious distinction for contemporary art. Assemble: How we build features ten selected projects to demonstrate the collective's working methods. Further essays provide background information and reflect on Assemble's objectives and philosophy.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Architekturzentrum Wien, June 1-September 11, 2017.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Angelika Fitz; title: Snapshots of the possible / Oliver Wainwright; title: The Cineroleum; title: Sugarhouse Studios; title: Yardhouse; title: Blackhorse Workshop; title: OTOProjects; title: Granby Four Streets; title: Granby Workshop; title: Granby Winter Garden; title: Baltic Street Adventure Playground; title: Goldsmiths Art Gallery; title: How we build: Assemble visiting professorship at the TU Wien / Maria Lisogorskaya, Lewis Jones; title: The stucco paradox / Niamh Riordan; title: Vienna grew out from its own underground / interview with Gerhard Zsutty.