https://becomingurban.earth Becoming Urban Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:29:04 +0000 https://becomingurban.earth en https://becomingurban.earth/Becoming-Urban Tue, 23 May 2023 07:33:00 +0000 Becoming Urban https://becomingurban.earth/Becoming-Urban BECOMING URBAN THE MONGOLIAN CITY OF NOMADS https://becomingurban.earth/BorderYellow Tue, 23 May 2023 09:58:12 +0000 Becoming Urban https://becomingurban.earth/BorderYellow https://becomingurban.earth/About-the-book Tue, 23 May 2023 07:02:23 +0000 Becoming Urban https://becomingurban.earth/About-the-book BECOMING URBAN For thousands of years, Mongolians have been living in gers – circular structures of timber, felt, and canvas. Easy to disassemble, move, and reassemble in a matter of hours without any tools or fixings, the ger is the ideal dwelling for nomadic living on the Mongolian steppe. Yet, as the basic unit of habitation in Mongolia’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar, it has led to sprawling ger districts that lack basic urban infrastructure and contribute to toxic levels of pollution. Becoming Urban tells the story of Ulaanbaatar’s ongoing transformation and reveals the challenges of making architecture in this context. Through urban analysis and a chronicle of working in the city’s ger districts, architect Joshua Bolchover brings to light their unique spatial characteristics and the urgency of ameliorating their current predicament. Putting forward designs that reimagine the ger with an aim toward responsible future growth, the book demonstrates an alternative form of practice and role for the architect. The story told in this book is not just about Mongolia. How communities, planners, and politicians grapple with the effects of planetary urbanisation is one of the critical issues of the twenty-first century. The ways in which this process comes to be materialized and organized spatially, and by whom, will have profound ramifications for the climate and the social and economic makeup of our cities. In response to these urgent issues, this book advocates that architecture is a social act and affirms the architect’s vital contribution to the process of becoming urban. 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His work focuses on innovating design strategies in developing regions undergoing rapid urbanization. He started a new impact enterprise in 2020 - District Development Unit - to scale initiatives designed to change how developing regions grow. He has written three books, Becoming Urban, 2023, Border Ecologies: Hong Kong’s Mainland Frontier, 2017, and Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside, 2014. He set up Rural Urban Framework with John Lin in 2005 with the remit to create a not-for-profit agency as a platform for design and research. Their projects have received international awards and have been exhibited globally. In recognition of Rural Urban Framework’s contribution to architectural discourse, their work has been acquired by MOMA, New York (2020) and the CCA Archive (2020)︎ https://becomingurban.earth/BorderBlack-copy Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:29:04 +0000 Becoming Urban https://becomingurban.earth/BorderBlack-copy https://becomingurban.earth/Events-1 Tue, 23 May 2023 09:03:26 +0000 Becoming Urban https://becomingurban.earth/Events-1 UPCOMING EVENTS2023, September — Book Launch PAST EVENTS2022&nbsp; Framework as Method: Transforming Ulaanbaatar’s Ger Districts’, in&nbsp;‘Terra’ ‘Retroactive’ curated by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. September 29 — December 5, 2022 Design for Common Good International Exhibition Metropolitan State University of Denver&nbsp; Center for Visual Art, Denver, USA. 14 January - 19 March 2022 &nbsp; 2021 The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. 16 September 2020 - 21 March 2021 CLIMATE CARE Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. 28 May - 3 October 2021 2020 ‘Les usages du monde - New ways of the World’ in an exhibition as part of the Lille Metropole 2020 World Design Capital, Lille, France. September 9 - November 8 2020 &nbsp; 2019 ‘Rural Urban Framework: Building a Collective Identity’ PMQ, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. October 2019 2018 ‘Ger District Hub’ in Common Good Museum for Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Sydney, Australia. March 2-Dec 2, 2018. &nbsp; 2017 ‘City of Nomads’ in Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World curated by Justin Mcguirk. The Design Museum, London. November 24, 2016 – April 27, 2017.&nbsp; 2016 “Settling the Nomads” in Reporting from the Front curated by Alejandro Aravena La Biennale di Venezia, Venice.&nbsp; May 28, 2016 – November 27, 2016&nbsp;