Lo Cal City

By Master of Architecture Thesis Studio 2011

Lo Cal City aggressively uncovers embedded radical efficiencies in a place - the true local in a locale - and posits how cities can minimize the metabolism of energy while maximizing the design and experience of architecture.This book is the result of the Parsons School of Constructed Environments 2010- 2011 Master of Architecture Thesis Studio. All students were in their final year of their professional architecture degrees at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. A majority of the students located their theses in the city of Albany, the capital of New York state, and engaged the director of City Planning in a series of discussions and presentations. Others chose New York City as their locale and one ranged far afield to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. All defined the Lo Cal City through the individuality and the aggregation of their thesis projects.The book describes the process of a thesis studio that locates itself in a lo cal locale. It begins with the faculty and student contributors; includes a series of essays that describe the ideas and operations of this architectural thesis studio; continues with the main body of the book, the students' projects; and then frames some of the issues of a specific locale. The book concludes with information that contextualizes the process of the studio, from reviews to workshops to a list of topics of the studio in the students' words, and images of the productive mess of the studio - post thesis review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467910805
• ISBN13: 9781467910804
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.6" x 8.0"