Book Review: Architecture as Measure by Neyran Turan
Ed. by Nina Rappaport
“What follows is an ambitiously innovative, thoroughly researched, and beautifully rendered body of work that inverts architecture’s relationship to the planet, shaking it free of the disciplinary conventions that limit the scope of its practice. In an era of increasing estrangement between the individual and the collective, human society and the planet, Architecture as Measure pushes readers (specifically architects) to expand their imaginations to embrace radical reconfigurations of human construction and planetary transformation as a means to circumvent the limits of our conventional knowledge. Like a theatrical performance, the book leaves its audience inspired with the open conclusion ‘What kinds of architectural stories will future archaeologies of our techno-fossils tell?’”