The Return of Nature (eBook, PDF)

Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability
Redaktion: Cohen, Preston; Naginski, Erika

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Detailed case studies and essays by practitioners, historians, and theorists present multiple viewpoints on the relations between architecture, nature, green design, sustainability, technology, and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317749776
• Artikelnr.: 40884710

Autorenporträt

Preston Scott Cohen is Gerald M. McCue Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Erika Naginski is Professor of Architectural History and Co-Director of the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Organic Conceits
1. Design's New Catechism, Robert Levit
2. Faculty of Omnipotence, Catherine Ingraham
3. The Raw and the Cooked, Sylvia Lavin
Case Study: MOS Architects, afterparty, Winner, MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program (2009)
Part 2: The Sublime Past
4. The Nature Parallel, Barry Bergdoll
5. Next to Nothing, K. Michael Hays
6. Nature After Mies, Diane Lewis
Case Study: Michael Bell Design, Gefter-Press House, Ghent, NY (2007)
Part 3: Sustaining Nature
7. On Limits, Andrew Payne
8. Eco-Pop, Mark Jarzombek
9. Nature, Model of Complexity, Jean-François Chevrier
Case Study: Steven Holl Architects, Sliced Porosity Block/Chengdu project
Part 4: The Nature of Infrastructure
10. Agri-tecture, Elizabeth Diller
11. Nature, Infrastructure and Cities, Antoine Picon
Case Study: George L. Legendre, Henderson Waves, Singapore (2008)
Part 5: Nature, Unnaturally
12. Block That Metaphor, Jorge Silvetti
Case Study: Prescott Scott Cohen, Inc., Chevron House, Los Gatos CA (2011)
Index.