Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain

Allen, Stan & McQuade, Marc

ISBN 10: 3037782234 / ISBN 13: 9783037782231

Published by Lars Muller Publishers, 2011

About this Item

This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade. Essays by Allen, Reyner Banham, Kenneth Frampton, David Gissen and Michael Jacob. Illustrated profusely in color and black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 479 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037782234
• ISBN 13: 9783037782231
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Architecture

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Synopsis

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.

About the Author

Stan Allen is an architect practicing in New York and dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University. Marc McQuade is an architect at Adjaye Associates in New York.