The theme of the first Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale is mobility as this relates to city and landscape, and the design culture that comes with it. Held between May and September 2003, the Biennale will bring together numerous universities, architects, urbanists, spatial planners and designers to swap experiences and discuss new strategies for giving shape to (car) mobility. This unique book shows the results of the international research in its various forms: statistics, photography, text, visual collage and design proposals. These together give a tangible and insightful look at the mobility culture of wide-ranging cities and countries: Mexico City, Hongkong and Guangzhou, Djakarta, Budapest, the Ruhr Valley, Beirut, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Peking and Randstad Holland. The editors, Francine Houben and Luisa Calabrese, see their aim as twofold. On the one hand they hope to learn how to work with infrastructure and motorway culture by studying the different cultural and geographical contexts. On the other, they seek to draw up an agenda for the future, one that establishes the role to be played there by the various design disciplines. Both research and book are the fruits of a collaboration with the universities of Wuppertal, Aachen, Berlin, California, Monterrey (Mexico), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Peking, Beirut, Budapest, Bandung and Delft.
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