Landform Building : Architecture's New Terrain

Allen, Stan. McQuade, Marc (Editors)

ISBN 10: 3037782234 / ISBN 13: 9783037782231

Published by Lars Muller Publishers/Princeton University School of Architecture, USA, 2011

About this Item

18 x 25cm 477p near fine hardback in dust jacket. Essays by Stan Allen, Reyner Banham, Kenneth Frampton, Michael Jakob and David Gissen. From the cover notes: 'Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice.' Described as architecture's new terrain involving green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms, buildings to walk on or over, netwoks of ramps and warped surfaces. Illustrated throughout with colour plus black and white reproductions. A heavy book - may require extra postage for overseas buyers. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landform Building : Architecture's New Terrain
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers/Princeton University School of Architecture, USA
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037782234
• ISBN 13: 9783037782231
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.