Landform Building: Architeture's new Terrain

Stan Allen, Marc McQuade

ISBN 10: 3037782234 / ISBN 13: 9783037782231

Published by Lars Müller Publishers Baden, Princetown University School of Architecture, 2011

About this Item

24,5 x 17,5, hardcover, jacket, 479 pp., illustrations. Excellent condition - as new. --- 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. The editors have assembled a catalogue of architectural work, critical texts, historical documentation and artist projects that together map out a new terrain for architecture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landform Building: Architeture's new Terrain
• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers Baden, Princetown University School of Architecture
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037782234
• ISBN 13: 9783037782231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architektur
  • Verschiedenes/Varia
  • Wissenschaft/Forschung

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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.