Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9783037784945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str.

James Graham; Caitlin Blanchfield; Alissa Anderson

Opis

This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interface of resiliency, sustain- ability, and ecotechnology? Climates also contains a dossier of precedents for thinking about architecture and climate change drawn from a number of leading practitioners. New approaches to understanding climate in architecture make this book invaluable. This publication is a project by The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

O autorze

Graham, JamesJames Graham ist Direktor der Publikationsabteilung und Assistenzprofessor an der Colombia GSAPP. Er leitet Columbia Books on Architecture and the City imprint und hat bei mehreren Ausgaben als Herausgeber fungiert. 2014 gründete er «The Avery Review», eine digitale Zeitschrift mit kritischen Essays rund um anchitektonische Themen.