Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation

ISBN-13: 9780367232696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Ryan Ludwig

Opis

Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human evolution and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change.

Spis treści

Part I: Technological Mediation 1. In Pursuit of Comfort: From Campfire to Smart Home 2. Wall Performance: Two Views of Nature, the Visual and the Visceral 3. Of Life and Death: The Interior Atmosphere-Environments of the Greenhouse and the Gas Chamber Part II: Environmental Identification 4. Back Home from the Frontier: Considering an Eco-Effective Design 5. Dwelling Deep: Towards a Transpersonal Architecture of Self-realization! Part III: Bio-Physical Inter-Action 6. Invisible Worlds: Constructing an Architecture of the Sensorium 7. Beyond the Prosthesis: Architectural Augmentation and Human Evolution 8. The Bio-Physical Dwelling: Shūsaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins’ Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa)

O autorze

Ryan Ludwig is an architect and educator teaching at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design, in the college of Design Architecture Art and Planning. He is the founding principal of Ludwig-ArchOffice (L-AO), a design and research studio focused on inclusive and adaptable approaches to architectural design. He is a recipient of a Fall 2018 MacDowell Fellowship and Centrum Artist Residency; is a co-editor of the book The Function of Form; and has previously published essays in numerous online and print journals.