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Synopsis
The geographic region around the North Pole is a raw and exotic area of untouched nature and inescapable beauty. Unique among the Earth's ecosystems, it includes both a vast, ice-covered ocean and a treeless region of tundra. Building in this extremely cold climate requires an advanced degree of ingenuity and resolve. Ecological conditions including high winds, snowdrifts, and permafrost, combined with periods of little or no sunlight, present seemingly impossible logistical hurdles. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of resident and invited architects creating buildings above 60 degrees latitude. The time has come for a new definition of a northern building€”one that isboth extraordinarily responsive to place and aesthetically provocative.In Modern North, author Julie Decker presents thirty-four of the most compelling and far-ranging possibilities of contemporary architecture in the North. These buildings€”located in northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Ala
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Julie Decker is a director of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. She is the author of Quonset Hut (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005).
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- PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1568988990
- ISBN 13 9781568988993
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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