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Architecture of Nature

Agrest Diana McPhee, John Angus
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781939621948
Publisert
2019-03-06
Utgiver
Oro Editions
Vekt
1685 gr
Høyde
298 mm
Bredde
228 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Forfatter
Agrest Diana
McPhee, John Angus

Biografisk notat

Diana Agrest, FAIA is a Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. She has taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Yale Universities. Agrest is internationally renowned for her pioneering and critical approach to architecture in practice and theory, considering architecture an interdiscursive field, focusing since 1989 on the question of Nature. Her designed and built work, which ranges in scale from buildings to cities and urban regions internationally, has received numerous awards. Her books include: The Sex of Architecture; Agrest and Gandelsonas: Works; Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice; and A Romance with the City. She wrote, produced, and directed the feature documentary film The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984, which premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in June 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Walker Art Center; Center Pompidou, Paris; and the Milano Triennale. She graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires in 1967 and did Post Graduate Studies at the Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Vi Section, Paris, France from 1967-1969. John Angus McPhee is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative non-fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Non-fiction in 1999 for Annals of the Former World. In 2008 he received the George Polk Career Award for his indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career. John McPhee is a Professor of writing at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1974.

Architecture of Nature

Agrest Diana McPhee, John Angus
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Agrest Diana McPhee, John Angus
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"...a vivid catalogue of material and physical processes that are as alluring and troubling as the oily rainbow when on a contaminated puddle. The speculative schemes--products of a nearly decade-long series of design studios taught by the book's lead author, architect and educator Diana Agrest, at Cooper Union's School of Architecture to 'deal with environmental issues'--present a dangerous kind of beauty." --Edward Eigen, Architectural Record

Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect's modes of seeing and techniques of representation. This book presents research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio 'Architecture of Nature/ Nature of Architecture', created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Architecture of Nature departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.
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The history of the earth is explored through the architect's mode of seeing and techniques of representation.
Expanding Boundaries: Architecture, Nature, Science, Representation 7 Diana Agrest Work 17 Liquid Tectonics, Phantom Surge, Subduction and Transformations of the Mantle Rock, Fire and Ice, Fire and Water, Oblique Tectonics, Moving lates and Stationary Hotspots, Life, Death, and Regeneration of Coral Reefs Constructions of Nature: Representation as Production Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones interviewed by Diana Agrest 65 Work 81 Invisible Clouds: Nuclear Testing and Radioactive Spaces, A Dissolving Landscape, Traces of Choreography of Fractures, Residual Surface, Between Erosion and Sedimentation: Water Flow and Land Mass, Between Two Waters: Disaster as Opportunity, Growth in Anoxic Conditions Sea Cliffs and the Sublime: A Conversation 125 Graham D. Burnett interviewed by Diana Agrest Work 133 Salt Domes, Chronicle of Eroding Forces, An Aeolian Sense: Configuring Power of an Invisible Force Field, Water Motion in a Topographical Vessel, Impact and Flow, Manipulated Life Cycles, Frozen Flow, Transformative Materiality, [Perma]Frost Landscape, Subterranean Channels Basin and Range: Geologic Time 193 John McPhee Work 201 Permafrost: Interactions and Transformations of States of Matter, Salt of the Earth, Rock, Fire, and Water: Interactions in Constant Motion, Algae as Habitat, Sequoia as Gestalt, Clouds as Transformational Tools, Cyclical Migration, Colliding Matters, Tornadogenesis and Topography The Return of the Repressed: Nature 257 Diana Agrest Work Appendix 269 Author and Contributor Bios 278 Acknowledgments 279
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"...a vivid catalogue of material and physical processes that are as alluring and troubling as the oily rainbow when on a contaminated puddle. The speculative schemes--products of a nearly decade-long series of design studios taught by the book's lead author, architect and educator Diana Agrest, at Cooper Union's School of Architecture to 'deal with environmental issues'--present a dangerous kind of beauty." --Edward Eigen, Architectural Record

Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect's modes of seeing and techniques of representation. This book presents research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio 'Architecture of Nature/ Nature of Architecture', created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Architecture of Nature departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.
Les mer
The history of the earth is explored through the architect's mode of seeing and techniques of representation.
Expanding Boundaries: Architecture, Nature, Science, Representation 7 Diana Agrest Work 17 Liquid Tectonics, Phantom Surge, Subduction and Transformations of the Mantle Rock, Fire and Ice, Fire and Water, Oblique Tectonics, Moving lates and Stationary Hotspots, Life, Death, and Regeneration of Coral Reefs Constructions of Nature: Representation as Production Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones interviewed by Diana Agrest 65 Work 81 Invisible Clouds: Nuclear Testing and Radioactive Spaces, A Dissolving Landscape, Traces of Choreography of Fractures, Residual Surface, Between Erosion and Sedimentation: Water Flow and Land Mass, Between Two Waters: Disaster as Opportunity, Growth in Anoxic Conditions Sea Cliffs and the Sublime: A Conversation 125 Graham D. Burnett interviewed by Diana Agrest Work 133 Salt Domes, Chronicle of Eroding Forces, An Aeolian Sense: Configuring Power of an Invisible Force Field, Water Motion in a Topographical Vessel, Impact and Flow, Manipulated Life Cycles, Frozen Flow, Transformative Materiality, [Perma]Frost Landscape, Subterranean Channels Basin and Range: Geologic Time 193 John McPhee Work 201 Permafrost: Interactions and Transformations of States of Matter, Salt of the Earth, Rock, Fire, and Water: Interactions in Constant Motion, Algae as Habitat, Sequoia as Gestalt, Clouds as Transformational Tools, Cyclical Migration, Colliding Matters, Tornadogenesis and Topography The Return of the Repressed: Nature 257 Diana Agrest Work Appendix 269 Author and Contributor Bios 278 Acknowledgments 279
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781939621948
Publisert
2019-03-06
Utgiver
Oro Editions
Vekt
1685 gr
Høyde
298 mm
Bredde
228 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Forfatter
Agrest Diana
McPhee, John Angus

Biografisk notat

Diana Agrest, FAIA is a Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. She has taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Yale Universities. Agrest is internationally renowned for her pioneering and critical approach to architecture in practice and theory, considering architecture an interdiscursive field, focusing since 1989 on the question of Nature. Her designed and built work, which ranges in scale from buildings to cities and urban regions internationally, has received numerous awards. Her books include: The Sex of Architecture; Agrest and Gandelsonas: Works; Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice; and A Romance with the City. She wrote, produced, and directed the feature documentary film The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984, which premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in June 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Walker Art Center; Center Pompidou, Paris; and the Milano Triennale. She graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires in 1967 and did Post Graduate Studies at the Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Vi Section, Paris, France from 1967-1969. John Angus McPhee is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative non-fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Non-fiction in 1999 for Annals of the Former World. In 2008 he received the George Polk Career Award for his indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career. John McPhee is a Professor of writing at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1974.

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