TY - BOOK ID - 15991659 TI - OfficeUS : Atlas AU - Franch i Gilabert, Eva AU - Miljački, Ana AU - Mínguez Carrasco, Carlos AU - Reidel, Jacob AU - Schafer, Ashley PY - 2015 SN - 9783037784396 3037784393 PB - Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Architectural firms KW - Agences d'architecture KW - History KW - Societies, etc. KW - Histoire KW - Associations KW - OfficeUS (Project) KW - Architectural practice KW - Architecture, American KW - architectural firms KW - architecture [discipline] KW - International Architectural Exhibition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15991659 AB - OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: “The Office” and “The Repository”. The “Repository” presents 1000 projects designed by 200 US offices working abroad in a chronological archive of the last 100 years. Collectively these projects tell multiple, imbricated stories of U.S. firms, typologies, and technologies, as well as a broader narrative of modernization and its global reach. The “Office” engages these projects, revisiting their premises and conclusions over the course of the Biennale. It functions as a laboratory staffed by a diverse group of resident design partners collaborating with outpost offices and a rotating cast of visiting experts. Together, these two halves of OfficeUS create both an historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architectural thought, and a petri dish in which that record is submitted to contemporary agents of disruption and critique. The outcome of this exhibition has resulted in three publications: the Agenda, the Atlas, and the Manual. ER -