"Islands" explores the possibility of architectural islands by dividing them into two categories, the oceanic and the continental. Oceanic islands are the radical ones, truly isolated not only in space, but also in time. Continental islands, in contrast, are the product of the erosion of a continent and are linked to something that exists nearby or that existed sometime in the past.
Two Deserted Islands
Mark Lee
OCEANIC
Letters from Hawaii: A Selection of Excerpts by Mark Twain
YellowOffice
A Pacific Solution
Lorenzo Pezzani
Growing an Island: Okinotori
Dirk De Meyer
The Multiplicity of Al-Mansur’s Baghdad
Martino Tattara
Navigational Maps of Sticks and Shells
Gae Aulenti
Bikini
Francesco Librizzi
Certain Tropical Feedback
Troy Conrad Therrien
Prologue/ Epilogue
Charles Avery
Islands of Memory
Davide Rapp
Beach-Umbrella Readings: The Isola Ferdinandea
Matteo Norzi
Between Artifice and Nature
Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Drawing the Perimeter
Kersten Geers
1,100 Palm Trees
Ido Avissar
CONTINENTAL
After Cornaro
baukuh, Salottobuono
Pin-ups, Racetracks and Baby Elephants, or How to Develop an Artificial Island Strategy
Eduard Sancho Pou
The Island of the Man with the Golden Gun
2A+P/A
Contexts in Expansion: On Vessels and Spaceships as Objects and Networks
Pietro Pezzani
Islands within Islands
Elisa Ferrato
Islands of Light and Steel
Joana Rafael
The Prison Island and the State of Nature (First Notes)
Lieven De Cauter/Desertmed
Archipelago Cities
Point Supreme Architects
An Interview with Andrea Zittel
Andrea Balestrero
The Gravitational Pull of the Mainland: Three Stories about the Potential for Autonomy of Coastal Islands
Valter Scelsi
Embassies: Architecture of Exception
Marco Ferrari