Combinatory Urbanism 2: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form

Cutting-edge urban proposals from Thom Mayne, one of architecture’s most celebrated and controversial practitioners.

For the past five decades Thom Mayne and his firm, Morphosis, have been engaged with projects that exist in the hybrid space between architecture and urban planning. This volume, the long-awaited follow-up to Mayne’s seminal book Combinatory Urbanism from 2011, presents fourteen urban projects—from Paris and Vienna to Chengdu, China—that show in detail why Mayne and Morphosis ...