EcoRedux: design remedies for an ailing planet (architectural design)

INDICE: Editorial (Helen Castle). About the Guest-Editor (Lydia Kallipoliti). Spotlight: Visual highlights of the issue. Introduction: No More Schisms (Lydia Kallipoliti). Whatever Happened to Ecology? (John McHale and the Bucky Fuller Revival Anthony Vidler). The Soft Cosmos of AD's 'Cosmorama' in the 1960sand 1970s (Lydia Kallipoliti). Guest-editor Lydia Kallipoliti revives the seminal AD Cosmorama section with a 'soft cosmos': a genealogy of ecological material experimentation from the 1960s and 1970s. (Ut)opiates: Rethinking Nature (Fabiola López-Durán and Nikki Moore). The Architecture of the Mouse (Mark Wigley). MEtreePOLIS 1901-2111 (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner). (Science) Fiction, Ecosophical Apparatus and Skizoid Machines: Animism, Vitalism and Machinism as a Way to Rearticulate the Need to Confront the Unknown in a Contradictory Manner (François Roche). Ecologies of Excess: An Excerpt from a 22nd-Century Architecture History Class (Eva Franch i Gilabert). Projecting herself intothe 22nd century, Eva Franch i Gilabert asks what would happen if culture waspredicated on ecologies of excess. Go Brown: Inner-Disciplinary Conjectures (Alexandros Tsamis). Numerical Ecosystems (Anna Pla Catalá). Dystopian Farming (Eric Vergne). Dross City (Lydia Kallipoliti). A Well-Cultivated House (Rafi Segal). Intelligent Wood Assemblies: Incorporating Found Geometry and Natural Material Complexity (Jonathan Enns). Rapid Re(f)use: 3-D Fabricated Positive Waste Ecologies (Mitchell Joachim). Counterpoint: Comings and Goings (Brian Carter).

• ISBN: 978-0-470-74662-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 136
• Fecha Publicación: 12/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés