Arts, design, architecture & planning

The World as an Architectural Project

Name: The World as an Architectural Project
Author: Hashim Sarkis

By Hashim Sarkis, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) and Roi Salgueiro Barrio, lecturer in SA+P, with Gabriel Kozlowski, researcher in SA+P

MIT Press · 2020

The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. This book shows how, for more than a century, architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With 50 speculative projects by visionary architects documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind.

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From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).

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