Publisher: Oro Editions 2016 Author: Julie Eizenberg ISBN: 9781939621443 Format 3 softbound broadsheets in a box, 96pp, 280x430mm
In Urban Hallucinations, architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighbourhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region. They bring a fresh eye to place-making and community building in an urban area that is ambivalent about development, yet conscious of regional issues – notably sustainability, affordability, and housing shortage.
Believing opportunities hide in plain sight, the architects sift through the context of increasing regulation, differing opinions on responsible growth, and priorities for quality of life to extract their own unexpected and compelling approach to the architecture of the day to day.