CASEY MACK (*1973) studied architecture at Columbia University and worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in New York and Hong Kong. He taught at the New York Institute of Technology and the Parsons School of Constructed Environments. He is director of the architecture and design office Popular Architecture in New York.
An important work in foreseeing the relationship of tension between
technology and art.--Osamu Ishiyama "Architect; professor emeritus,
Waseda University"
Casey Mack recharges the legacy of the world-famous avant-garde of
the 1960s by revisiting actual built projects to document their
post-occupancy life and inhabitants. His historical and
ethnographical account is touching in its honest portrayal of
success and failure, and is most inspiring and instructive for
building towards more resilient and livable cities.--Dirk van den
Heuvel "TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam"
Casey Mack's exceptional Digesting Metabolism is a profound
exploration.... Through his original and forward-looking research,
Mack subtly forms a perspective on the movement that gives an
engaged outlook to the future, a kind of learning from
metabolism.--Finn Geipel "LIN Architects Urbanists; professor, TU
Berlin"
In this wonderfully refreshing work, Mack reconfigures the history
of the Metabolists simply by moving the focus from megastructure to
artificial land. In doing so, he eschews the easy slogan or image
that infatuates so much of our design discourse for a more complex
narrative of unfulfilled vectors - how the Metabolists addressed
time, adaptability, flexibility. These vectors in turn identify
that it is the world of the Metabolists in which we remain, and
that it is these questions outside our comfortable control that as
designers we must continue to grapple with.--Brett H. Schneider
"Senior Associate, Guy Nordenson and Associates; Associate
Professor, Department of Architecture, Rhode Island School of
Design"
Part study of housing typologies; part history of modern Japan; and
part disquisition on how architecture might reconcile the spatial
with the temporal, this book is a tour-de-force of scholarship and
analysis.... Casey Mack weaves a fascinating historical narrative
around the notion of 'artificial land, ' spun from the threads of
architectural ambition, idiosyncratic activism, social
transformation, bureaucratic planning, and everyday practice.--Dr.
Julian Worrall "Professor of Architecture, University of Tasmania"
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