Assemble: How We Build offers a first comprehensive insight into the work and projects of the London-based architecture
collective Assemble. How we build, how things are made and materials are assembled, reflects the social, economic and political conditions of a society. Changing the status-quo by community action is a focal point in the work of Assemble, who have developed a signature blend of social activation, poetic spaces and ecological and economic sustainability. Assemble's 18 members started their collaboration in 2010, following their graduation from Cambridge University. Their portfolio
comprises diverse projects such as a temporary cinema at a former petrol station, affordable workspaces for artists, the
foundation of social enterprises, the revitalisation of a former working-class neighbourhood, or designing a new art gallery for
Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2015, Assemble was awarded with Turner Prize, the first architects to win Europe's most
prestigious distinction for contemporary art. Assemble: How We Build features ten selected projects to demonstrate the collective s working methods. Further essays provide background information and reflect on Assemble s objectives and philosophy. The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at Architekturzentrum Wien Az W in summer 2017.
- ISBN10 3038600776
- ISBN13 9783038600770
- Publish Date 1 June 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 November 2021
- Publish Country CH
- Imprint Park Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English