News Felipe Correa (TSA ‘00) publishes book
Felipe Correa (TSA ‘00) recently published, in association with Joan Busquets, “Quito: A Flatbed Site as an Agent for a New Centrality”.
The material documented in the book, takes the current Mariscal Sucre International Airport grounds, soon to be released once the facilities are relocated to Tababela, as a point of departure for an extensive exploration of the relationship between the city’s organizational directives and its broader orographic condition. Furthermore, it exploits the imbedded potential within the former airfield site to gear an extensive transformation of the northern quarters of the city. Through diverse cartographic exercises and well tempered drawings, the city of Quito is re-presented in order to ignite creative thought about the potential forms of open space that can colonize the void left by the airfield.
The book is the result of a one year investigation at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where Correa is a design critic in urbanism.
12.10.07
