Way Beyond Bigness

The Need for a Watershed Architecture

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Provides a uniquely contemporary design-research framework for multi-disciplinary strategies across multiple scales of river basins…

ISBN: 978-1-940743-59-2
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 592pp
Publication Date: Spring 2023
Size: 6” x 9” Portrait
Rights World: Available
 
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“First comprehensive analysis of water-based infrastructural challenges across the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine basins.”

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Soft Bound

Pages

300pp

Publication date

Spring 2023

Size

6” x 9” Portrait

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Overview

Way Beyond Bigness is a design-research project that studies the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins, with particular focus on multi-scaled, water-based infrastructural transformation. The book proposes a simple, adaptive framework that utilizes a three-part, integrative design-research methodology, structured as: Appreciate + Analyze, Speculate + Synthesize, and Collaborate + Catalyze. To do such, Way Beyond Bigness realigns watersheds and architecture across multiple: scales (site to river basin), disciplines (ecologists to economists), narratives (hyperbolic to pragmatic), and venues (academic to professional). The research critiques and recasts Oxford Dictionary’s two very different definitions for a “watershed”: 1) “An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas” and 2) “An event or period marking a turning point in a situation in a course of action or state of affairs” and its two very different definitions for “architecture”: 1) “The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings” and 2) “the complex or carefully designed structure of something.” The book highlights the author’s comprehensive work of over more than a decade, including in depth field research across the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine, along with a diverse body of academic and professional collaborations, ranging from the speculative to the community-based.

Authors

Derek Hoeferlin AIA is principal of [dhd] derek hoeferlin design, an award-winning, trans-scalar architecture and design practice based in St. Louis. He is an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level multi-disciplinary approaches to architecture.

Additional Info

ISBN: 978-1-940743-59-2
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 592pp
Publication Date: Spring 2023
Size: 6” x 9” Portrait
Rights World: Available


Way Beyond Bigness

“First comprehensive analysis of water-based infrastructural challenges across the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine basins.”

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USA - New York
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Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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