Rania Ghosn

Nobody wants to think about garbage. At least that is the assumption. But treating garbage as an "out of sight, out of mind" problem is not healthy – neither for people nor the planet. Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy's Geographies of Trash is a book-length argument for architects "to take on problems that had once been the domains of engineering or regional planning." The "Represent" section lays out their argument through essays and illustrations, the latter focused on trash in the state of Michigan, while the "Project" section presents five design scenarios for dealing with garbage as a building material or morphological element of urban form. Lastly, "Assemble" documents through photos the duo's installation that created a spatial object from their five projects. Kudos to the graphic designers at Thumb, who took the great visuals and turned it into a beautiful book.… (mehr)