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Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design

By David Gissen

Book information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2010
ISBN
9780470721650, 9780470721650
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30870833 bytes)
Series
Architectural Design 80 3
Pages
139\139
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
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Description

Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting which pre-exists the production of new things. Ultimately, it suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.

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