Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi
A practice-led collaboration between James Muriuki and Constance Smith, “Excavation | Elevation” examines the excavations and extractions that make high-rise architecture possible. Focusing on the socio-geologies of Nairobi, it follows the city’s urban transformation above and below ground. As fi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Lagoonscapes |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/01/003 |
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| Summary: | A practice-led collaboration between James Muriuki and Constance Smith, “Excavation | Elevation” examines the excavations and extractions that make high-rise architecture possible. Focusing on the socio-geologies of Nairobi, it follows the city’s urban transformation above and below ground. As fields become tower blocks, excavation and extraction, quarrying and land speculation underpin new high-rise skylines. But horizons can be fragile: buildings collapse and construction sites play host to new urban ecologies, as the underneath and the surface shape each other.
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| ISSN: | 2785-2709 |