Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136190582
Content:
These essays by architects, theorists, and sustainable designers together provide a framework to help you develop your own guidelines to approaching to your work. Introductions define key terms, and nine case studies demonstrate the concepts
Note:
Intro -- Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Charting Posthuman Territory -- Section I: Posthuman Subjects -- Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere -- Post-Animal Life -- The Next Subject: A Conversation with Dr. Caleb Finch -- Approaching a New Biotope -- The Biosphere of Machines: Enter the Parasite -- Case Studies -- Arakawa and Gins, Bioscleave HouseEast Hampton, NY, 1999-2008 -- Arons en Gelauff, The Plussenburgh Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2001-2006 -- R& -- Sie(n), I'm Lost in Paris Paris, France, 2008 -- Section II: Posthuman Assemblages -- Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move: An ANT's View of Architecture -- Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture,and Diller+Scofidio's Blur -- Pragmatic Ecologies -- Futures, Cities, Architecture -- Against Program -- Metabolic Urbanization:The Making of Cyborg Cities -- Case Studies -- Minifie Nixon (now Minifie van Schaik Architects), Australian Wildlife Heath Center Melbourne, Australia, 2006 -- The Living, Living Light Pavilion, Peace Park Seoul, South Korea, 2009 -- Studio Gang Architects, Ford Calumet Environmental Center Calumet, Illinois, 2004-present -- Section III: Posthuman Territory -- Zones of Indistinction: Bio-political Contestations in the Urban Arena -- Anima Urbis -- Hybrid Cartographies for a Relational Ethics -- The Emergent Alternative -- Risk, Globalization, and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary -- Case Studies -- The Living and Natalie Jeremijenko, Amphibious Architecture East River, New York, 2009 -- SCAPE, Oyster-tecture Project, 2010 -- Pilot in Brooklyn, NY, 2011-present -- Casagrande Lab, Ruin Academy Taipei, Taiwan, 2010-present -- Notes on Contributors -- Text and Image Credits -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Harrison, Ariane Lourie Architectural Theories of the Environment Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415506182
Language:
English
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