Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environmentsurrounding them. Drawing from physical and human geographical thought, it explores 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 toxicitiesenabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects, and sensations within architectural and urban experience. It 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 advocates architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.David Gissen is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He is a historian, theorist and curator, editor and author, with exhibitions staged all over America. He is the editor of the book Big and Green and author of a book on nature-concepts in architectural and engineering history and theory published by Princeton Architectural Press.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-72165-0
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 136
- Fecha Publicación: 16/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés