We have just received the excellent volume Urbanacción, a compendium based on exhibitions and workshops that happened in the cultural center Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2007-2009. Edited by Ana Mendez, Urbanacción presents works by EcosistemaUrbano, Santiago Cirugeda, Raumlabor, AAA, Vazio S/A, and others. The text below was published atNAi Bookshop, where the book can be purchased:
“This book collects various actions and proposals of intervention in the urban space brought by the Urbanacion organization along with La Casa Encendida, developed between 2007 and 2009. It also includes the projects of urban intervention and appropriation carried out in different More…parts of the world by raumlabor, Recetas Urbanas/Santiago Cirujeda, Vazio S/A, aaa (atelier d’architecture autogeree), Einfach/Mehrfach (Viena), Green Guerrillas, Cascoland, Bruit du frigo and [R]activa, with the theoretical texts by Merijn Oudenampsen, stre Szymczak, Klaus Obermeyer, Stany Cambot and Gil Doron; the result of the workshops by Carlos Teixeira, Lara Almarcegui, raumlabor, Sterni and Pied la Biche, as well as the winning and finalist projects of the urbanaccion2 contest. This publication is a part of the collection of books on urban reflection: Housing and Domestic Space in the XXI Century, Think Madrid.”
