RE\CONSTRUCTING ATLANTA: a contemporary continuum
Published by
The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Georgia State University
August 2008
Editor, Cathy Byrd

120 page, full color
softbound with cover flaps
80 image pages
40 text pages
$24.95

 

 

INTRODUCING RE\CONSTRUCTING ATLANTA

RE\CONSTRUCTING ATLANTA presents the city's contemporary reinvention through critical writing and a dense pictorial section featuring creative projects by artists and architects who live and work here. Imagery and text explore a real and imagined Atlanta, pointing to challenges and proposing alternatives for pedestrians and commuters, the displaced and the privileged, green and built space and the greater community that lives with a constantly changing cityscape.

This study of “the fastest growing human settlement in the history of the planet” offers a fascinating perspective on growth and redevelopment of interest to urbanists, architects, developers, artists, curators and educators.

ESSAYS

Cathy Byrd, project curator, Director, GSU Welch School Gallery
            Mapping the Invisible Atlanta

[editor, Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, 2006)]
           
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
            Designs for Underperforming Asphalt: The Regeneration of Atlanta

[Co-author, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Sustainable Regeneration (New York: John C. Wiley & Sons, 2008)]

Ryan Gravel, architect and author of the Atlanta Beltline transit initiative
            The Beltline: A Cultural Phenomenon

Mtamanika Youngblood, CEO, Annie E. Casey Foundation Atlanta Civic Site
            When Neighborhoods Count: Residents Rebuild a Community

ARTIST AND ARCHITECT PROJECTS
ILLUSTRATIONS AND ACCOMPANYING TEXT

Transit and Environment
These two sections examine the real and imagined effects of Atlanta’s contemporary reconstruction. The urban and suburban identity, accessibility, greenspace, cultural domains and gentrification are among the topics explored.

City of the Future
A third section centers on the future, presenting concepts by five Atlanta-based architect team participants in the History Channel City of the Future/Atlanta Design and Engineering Challenge competition, 2008.

Exhibitions
A final section describes and illustrates three related 2007-2008 exhibitions: Unbuilt Atlanta/Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Urban Intervention: The Beltline/GSU Welch School Gallery and Now, Here, This: Atlanta Youth Re-Imagine the City/Youth Art Connection Gallery.

Image Index
This resource identifies the geographic location of each Atlanta site shown and/or referenced in the book.

Project site: www.reconstructingatlanta.com