biennial dressing valencia ourselves

books:

The Ideal City: 2nd Valencia Biennial
Will Alsop, Bruce McLean

Charta, 2003

The 2nd Valencia Biennial explores, together with leading international artists and creators, a central problem facing the world today: the destiny of diversity. Specially commissioned projects question the power and potential of the city, of The Ideal City, understood as a prismatic place capable of symbolically ordering and accommodating difference and differences without smothering them.

Shrinking Cities: Volume 2
Will Alsop, Jorg Dettmar, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006

Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. The new challenges they pose require new approaches, joining the "hard" tools of construction with the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural and communications interventions. Shrinking Cities: Volume 2: Interventions provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities, cataloguing tools from the fields of ...

Dressing Ourselves
Will Alsop, Fabio Destefani, ...

Charta, 2005

Conceiving a "self-portrait dress" was the charge given to world-famous architects, designers, musicians, and artists by Alessandro Guerriero, and the results were an exercise in cross-genre creativity that would stun a traditional runway front row. A winner of Italy's highest award for industrial design, the Compasso d'Oro, Guerriero received sketches from 30 of the most innovative minds in a variety of fields, then recruited design students ...