This is one of the most beautiful architecture theory books I'd ever seen. The articles and interviews are clearly expanding the boundaries of the architectural discourse and the role of architecture in building the body of knowledge around nature. The choice of Nature as an object of architectural research and representation has tremendous value to architects (and designers) by stretching time and scale and focusing on processes rather than merely forms and static configurations.
Every project featured in the book is astonishing. The quality of the drawings and the depth of research are indeed impressive. Very inspiring, both for those who want to read it cover-to-cover and for those who just want to look at the pictures :)
Great printing quality.
Highly recommended!!!
Architecture of Nature: Nature of Architecture Hardcover – 24 Jan. 2019
English edition by
Diana Agrest
(Författare),
John Angus McPhee
(Författare)
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The history of the earth is explored through the architect's mode of seeing and techniques of representation.
- Print length280 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGoff Books
- Publication date24 Jan. 2019
- ISBN-101939621941
- ISBN-13978-1939621948
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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
"The question is no longer that of composition but of "dealing with" a turbulent state of nature in a perpetual process of becoming and/or coming undone. One future possibility is that "us" (architects) will be cropped out of the picture and nature, by whatever definition, will return to reassert itself over our now long-estranged better selves. As an atlas of us now, this handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated book covers some intriguingly uncommon ground."--Edward Eigen "Architectural Record"
"The question is no longer that of composition but of "dealing with" a turbulent state of nature in a perpetual process of becoming and/or coming undone. One future possibility is that "us" (architects) will be cropped out of the picture and nature, by whatever definition, will return to reassert itself over our now long-estranged better selves. As an atlas of us now, this handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated book covers some intriguingly uncommon ground."--Edward Eigen "Architectural Record"
From the Back Cover
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. Chani
About the Author
Diana Agrest, FAIA is a Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and 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.
Peter Louis Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in both physics and in the history of science in 1983. In 1997, Peter Galison was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung.
Caroline A. Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. Trained in visual studies and art history at Harvard, she did graduate work at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York before completing her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1992. Previous to completing her art history degree, she worked in museum administration and exhibition curation, holding positions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85) while she completed two documentary films.
Graham Burnett is a Professor of History in the History Department at Princeton University. He graduated from Princeton University in 1993 and completed a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (1997 [2001]), where he was a member of Trinity College. Graham Burnett works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice. His scholarly interests include the history of natural history and the sciences of the earth and the sea from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, including cartography, navigation, oceanography, and ecology/environmentalism.
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction 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.
Peter Louis Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in both physics and in the history of science in 1983. In 1997, Peter Galison was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung.
Caroline A. Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. Trained in visual studies and art history at Harvard, she did graduate work at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York before completing her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1992. Previous to completing her art history degree, she worked in museum administration and exhibition curation, holding positions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85) while she completed two documentary films.
Graham Burnett is a Professor of History in the History Department at Princeton University. He graduated from Princeton University in 1993 and completed a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (1997 [2001]), where he was a member of Trinity College. Graham Burnett works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice. His scholarly interests include the history of natural history and the sciences of the earth and the sea from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, including cartography, navigation, oceanography, and ecology/environmentalism.
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction 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.
Product details
- Publisher : Goff Books; 1st edition (24 Jan. 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 280 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1939621941
- ISBN-13 : 978-1939621948
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