‘Monsterpieces’

As tomorrow’s users adapt to today’s iconic building forms, Aude-Line Duliere and Clara Wong see Austria’s Kunsthaus as a biomass energy plant and Beijing’s CCTV tower as a sports park in their witty manifesto, Monsterpieces: Once Upon a time … of the 2000s!. The two Harvard Graduate School of Design alums “unlearn architectural history” to imagine the archifuture. “These speculations glorify the absurdity of architectural forms in the 2000s,” they write in one of the essays that add some heft to this pictorial parody. • $19.95; Oro editions, September 2010