Reciprocal Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reciprocal Landscapes write by Jane Hutton. This book was released on 2019-09-06. Reciprocal Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Reciprocal Landscapes
Reciprocal Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reciprocal Landscapes write by Jane Elizabeth Hutton. This book was released on 2020. Reciprocal Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reciprocal Landscapes: Cases in Material Movement traces five everyday landscape construction materials-fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood-from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from.
Wood Urbanism
Wood Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wood Urbanism write by Daniel Ibañez. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Wood Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From small-scale thermal properties to large-scale forestry, territorial, and carbon cycle issues, wood has latent propensities not well addressed in the current discourse on wood construction. Through a range of design research formats-from material testing to in-situ documentation to speculative urban projects- this book articulates and illustrates future architectural and ecological potentials of wood.
Groundwork
Groundwork - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Groundwork write by Diana Balmori. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Groundwork available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.
Restorative Commons
Restorative Commons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restorative Commons write by Lindsay K. Campbell. This book was released on 2009. Restorative Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
