Supercrits take projects that have changed the weather of architecture and re-visit them in an international critical forum. The key protagonists are invited to present their projects, which may be built or unbuilt, temporary or permanent, to a panel of expert international critics, people who were actively involved at the time, an open audience of students, professionals and an interested public. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.
Rattenbury, K. and Hardingham, S. (eds.) (2007) Supercrit #1. Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt. London: Routledge.
Rattenbury, K. and Hardingham, S. (eds.) (2007) Supercrit #2. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas. London: Routledge.
Rattenbury, K. and Hardingham, S. (eds.) (2011) Supercrit #3. Richard Rogers: the Pompidou Centre. London: Routledge.
Rattenbury, K. and Hardingham, S. (eds.) (2011) Supercrit #4. Bernard Tschumi: Parc de la Villette . London: Routledge.
Supercrits 5 – 7 (Rem Koolhaas: Delirious New York; Leon Krier: Poundbury; and Michael Wilford: Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart) will be published digitally in 2013.
Available:
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/SUPERCRITS/
Press:
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2005/supercrits