Bracket 1 Book Launch - New York

BOOK LAUNCH Bracket 1: On Farming Mason White, Maya Przybylski, editors Friday, December 10, 7:00pm The Metropolitan Exchange 33 Flatbush Avenue, 6th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Copies will be available for a special price of $30 Editorial Board— Fritz Haeg Maya Przybylski Heather Ring Michael Speaks Nathalie de Vries Charles Waldheim Mason White Bracket is a new book series structured around an open call for entries that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. It is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect. Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging thematics in our global age that are shaping the built environment in radically significant, yet often unexpected ways. On Farming looks at the capacity for architecture to address ideas and issues of productive landscapes and urbanisms. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. The issue collects original design projects, installations, and essays which interrogate new typologies, forms, and formats of the built environment. With almost 40 design proposals and 12 essays, On Farming collects emerging designers and thinkers internationally. Bracket is published by Actar and sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. http://brkt.org/