Overview

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 + Analyse, Speculate + Synthesise, and Collaborate + Catalyse. 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). The research critiques and recasts Oxford Dictionary's two very different definitions for a ""watershed"": 1) ""An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas"" and 2) ""An event or period marking a turning point in a situation in a course of action or state of affairs"" and its two very different definitions for ""architecture"": 1) ""The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings"" and 2) ""the complex or carefully designed structure of something."" The book highlights the author's comprehensive work of over more than a decade, including in depth field research across the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine, along with a diverse body of academic and professional collaborations, ranging from the speculative to the community-based.

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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"

""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

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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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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