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, lay-flat, with gatefolds
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

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300pp

Publication date

Spring 2023

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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.

Foreword by Margarita Jover

Afterword by “Big Muddy” Mike Clark

Thematic Essays by Anthony Acciavatti, Neeraj Bhatia, Ian Caine

Additional Essays and Collaborations: Rob Birch, Palakorn Chanbanyong, Jennifer Colten, L. Irene Compadre, Shelby Elizabeth Doyle, Chad Fisk, Justine Holzman, Meghan Kirkwood, Alex Kolker, Robbert de Koning, Simon Krohn, Forbes Lipschitz, Kees Lokman, Allison Méndez, Han Meyer, Dale Morris, Jonathan Stitelman, Dorothy Tang, Chuck Theiling, Duong Van Ni, Jess Vanecek, Jesse Vogler, Paul Wu, Chenyu Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis students and research assistants

Additional Info

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


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Way Beyond Bigness

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

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Tel: +1(415) 883-3300
USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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