Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway

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ISBN: 9781568984544
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 80 pages
17,8 x 21,6 cm
black & white
May 2004
€11,50 (excl. VAT)

Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway

Jonathan D. Solomon

Series: Pamphlet Architecture

Conceived as a set of “Flexible Standards,” Pamphlet Architecture 26 proposes a new way of thinking about roadways in cities. By reexamining the urban expressway as a political, physical, and mythic manifestation of American culture, this compelling pamphlet serves as a design manual for planners, a novel atlas for drivers, and a collection of proposals that reaffirm the role of architecture in urban planning.

The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure – the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet.