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New approaches to nature, landscape, and territory were key in the jury's and architect's architecture discussions during the second cycle of the MCHAP prize. This book puts together the finalist projects with a selection of articles, dialogues and visual essays, providing a particular set of lenses with which to look at the newest architecture of the Americas. The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), directed by Dirk Denison from within the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), promotes an academic award that is given to the best architecture built in the American continent during a specific period. MCHAP The Americas 2, Territory & Expeditions, is inspired on the discussions held during the second cycle of the prize, which took place in 2016. Based on the selection of the finalist projects-Weekend House by SPBR, New Campus for the UTEC by Grafton Architects, Pachacamac Museum by Llosa Cortegana Architects, Tower 41 by Alberto Kalach, Star Apartmens by Michael Maltzan Architecture, and Grace Farms by SANAA-, the jury conversations and discoveries were very much conditioned by the ideas of nature and its intimate relation to architecture and landscape. This book is part a reader, part a catalogue, part a visual essay/research on these matters. The texts and projects are in themselves contributions to the field as they show new understandings about the relationship between architecture and its environment as well as singularities and genealogies of the most prominent architectures of the Americas. With Contributions of Stan Allen, Wiel Arets, Pedro Aparicio & Juliana Ramirez, Barry Bergdoll, Ila Berman, Sol Camacho, Canary Project, Beatriz Colomina, Juan Pablo Corvalan, Jean Pierre Crousse, Dirk Denison, Uriel Fogue, Mariano Gomez Luque & Daniel Ibanez, Rodrigo Kommers Wender, Sanford Kwinter, Ciro Najle & Lluis Ortega, Isabella Moretti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Todd Palmer, Paul Preissner, Enrique Ramirez, Ana Raskovsky, Patricio del Real, Graciela Silvestri, Jeannette Sordi, Magdalena Tagliabue, Mason White (texts). Canary Project, Pablo Gerson, Miguel de Guzman, David Sisso (photos).

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Florencia Rodriguez is a lecturer in architecture and Editorial Director of Lots of architecture -publishers and NESS. Trained as an architect in Argentina, she has devoted her career to editing, writing and teaching. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard GSD between 2013 and 2014. In 2010, Rodriguez founded PLOT, a publication about architecture which she continued to direct until 2017. Under her stewardship, it quickly became one of the leading publications in Latin America. In early 2017 she embarked on a new editorial platform together with Pablo Gerson. Lots of architecture -publishers has since done magazines, books, and events, among other activities committed to the research of new forms of communication and criticism in this age of dispersion. Rodriguez has lectured, curated a number of exhibitions, and organized international symposia in different institutions, mainly in the Americas. In Argentina she was a visiting professor at School of Architecture of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Universidad de Palermo, and taught theory courses at other universities such as Harvard GSD, Universidad del Litoral, Tecnologico de Monterrey, or The Boston Architectural College. She has received awards for her editorial work and published several articles in books and specialized media such as Domus, Oris, summa +, Arquine, a+u, or Uncube. She has recently co-edited America, the 48th issue of the Harvard Design Magazine together with Mark Lee.

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