Way Beyond Bigness

The Need for a Watershed Architecture

By: Derek Hoeferlin

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Paperback | 9 November 2023

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The first comprehensive analysis of water-based infrastructural challenges across the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins provides a uniquely contemporary design-research framework for multi-disciplinary strategies across multiple scales of river basins Reaches a diverse body of audiences, including academic, professional, designers, multiple disciplines, and communities.

Way Beyond Bigness is a design-research project that studies the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins, with particular focus on multi-scaled, water-based infrastructural transformation. The book proposes a simple, adaptive framework that utilises a three-part, integrative design-research methodology, structured as: Appreciate + Analyze, Speculate + Synthesize, and Collaborate + Catalyze.

To do such, Way Beyond Bigness realigns watersheds and architecture across multiple: scales (site to river basin), disciplines (ecologists to economists), narratives (hyperbolic to pragmatic), and venues (academic to professional).

About the Author

Derek Hoeferlin, AIA is principal of [dhd] derek hoeferlin design, an award-winning, trans-scalar architecture and design practice based in St. Louis. He is an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level multi-disciplinary approaches to architecture.

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"Epic in both scope and size, Way Beyond Bigness presents design research on three watersheds: the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine river basins.... The first two sections are packed with contributor essays, precise analytical drawings, and field-work photography, while the latter gives space to the more intimate role of community engagement." --Landscape Architecture Magazine

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