Oct 12 2010
Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design" to their offering.
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.
Key Topics Covered:
- Editorial (Helen Castle).
- About the Guest-Editor (David Gissen).
- Introduction
- The Ecological Facades of Patrick Blanc (Matthew Gandy).
- What Has Happened to Territory? (Antoine Picon).
- Interior Eye.
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Howard Watson).
- Building Profile.
- Antwerp Central and Lige-Guillemins, Belgium (David Littlefield).
- Practice Profile
- ecoLogicStudio (Terri Peters).
- Spillers Bits.
- Fiddling While the World Burns (Neil Spiller).
- Unit Factor.
- Emergence and the Forms of Cities (Michael Weinstock).
- Userscape. Relational Interactive Architecture (Valentina Croci).
- Yeangs Eco-Files.
- Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Buildings Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process (Michael Bendewald, Victor Olgyay (RMI) and Ken Yeang).
- McLeans Nuggets (Will McLean).
- Site Lines.
- MAXXI, Rome: Zaha Hadid Architects (Mark Garcia).
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