"In its innovations of form, its depth of research, its acute analysis,  and its enormous relevance, this is a remarkable work. Keller Easterling  has written one of the most original works about the American  environment I've ever read." -- Michael Sorkin, architect, Institute for  Urbanism, Vienna    The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of  generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways.  For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the  context of design efforts--they are the design. Bridging the gap between  architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part  of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the  expression of organizational character as part of the architectural  endeavor.    Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are  improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change, to mistakes,  anomalies, and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these  irregularities opportunistically, she offers architects working within  the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering  space.    By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and  modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies  between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems,  highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial  organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms  of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple  sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable.

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