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BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation (Paperback)
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BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation (Paperback)
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After the global success of Yes is More, one of the best-selling
architecture books of its generation, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
presents Hot to Cold, an Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation. The
book coincides with the Hot to Cold show at the National Building
Museum in Washington DC and presents 60 case studies in harsh
climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our
planet. As we travel from one end of the spectrum to its opposite
we will see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense
its impact on the architecture. The central challenge is to
mitigate the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, while
finding solutions that can be both economically and environmentally
profitable. Architecture is the art and science of accommodating
the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren't givens;
they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten
to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow
planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to
continue that effort, pick up where they left off. Hot to Cold
stays true to BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's grand mission to find a
pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity,
but the kind of world we wish to inhabit. The book features: Design
from award-winning artists Sagmeister & Walsh Previously
unpublished essays by Bjarke Ingels. A convertible dust
jacket-poster.
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