Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment - Architectural Design (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	John Wiley & Sons
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	DG Gissen
Dimensions:	275 x 212 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	136
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-470-72165-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
LSN:	0-470-72165-0
Barcode:	9780470721650

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