Joe Day - Böcker

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed in terms of public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our recent demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design.

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed in terms of public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our recent demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design.

A compilation of the designer and architectural theorist's writings on the interstices of art, architecture and cities from the past 30 yearsIn this comprehensive survey of his writing to date, Los Angeles–based designer and architectural theorist Joe Day (born 1967), who leads Deegan-Day Design LLC and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at SCI-Arc, examines the intersections of architecture, contemporary art and urbanism as interdependent visual and spatial disciplines. Including pieces for both academic and general readership, letters, reviews, public addresses and responses, Essays offers a full account of Day's 30-year critical development, and a revealing look at LA's built environment and intellectual climate at the turn of the millennium.Organized in three chronological sequences—"Transgressions," "Situations" and "Reactions"—this collection begins with nominalist observations on art and architecture, then turns to writing on cities, and concludes with responses to major works and figures including Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Mike Davis and Rosalind Krauss, as well as many more recent protagonists.