Dagmar Richter is one of the few architects working today who seek to radically reinvent urban design. Her work explores new solu-tions to architecture and planning by giving voice to elements deemed inappropriate or undesirable'traces of a site's history, con-temporary photographs or drawings, and texts or spoken words. Richter's work on "re-skinning" the city proposes that the act of designing is an act of editing, appropriating, and layering. Her work, characterized by an absolute intensity of technical skill, addresses contemporary issues of authorship, precedence, site, and memory. XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter catalogs over 10 years of Dagmar Richter's design practice. This book combines a descriptive, "hyper-linked" text arrangement with drawings, models, and com-puter renderings of over 15 competition entries, urban design pro-posals, and built projects. Dagmar Richter, an architect with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica, is a professor of architecture at UCLA. XYZ features an afterword by Anthony Vidler.
Dagmar Richter is an architect with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica and is a professor of architecture at UCLA.