Portugal Lessons | Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture, Teaching and Reserach in Architecture 2018

Harry Gugger

ISBN 10: 3038601098 / ISBN 13: 9783038601098

Published by Park Books, 2019

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Portugal Lessons | Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture, Teaching and Reserach in Architecture 2018 | Harry Gugger | Taschenbuch | 212 S. | Englisch | 2019 | Park Books | EAN 9783038601098 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Carsten Schlieker, Postfach 20 21, 37010 Göttingen, info[at]gva-verlage[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portugal Lessons | Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture, Teaching and Reserach in Architecture 2018
• Publisher: Park Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3038601098
• ISBN 13: 9783038601098
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 310W x 212H x 22D millimeters 310 millimeters width by 212 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1021 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Architecture is often seen as confronting the natural environment, its buildings and other objects inscribing boundaries and thereby expressing an internalized point of view. But there is another way of seeing and practicing architecture: By questioning the distinction between landmarks and the landscape they adjoin, architectural objects can themselves be environmental objects that amplify nature and increase our awareness of it.
Portugal Lessons is a project of laba, or Laboratory Basel, founded in 2011 as a satellite studio of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Architecture. The book presents the studio’s case studies of the country and processes of urbanization. Rooted in laba’s latest research, it explores architectural forms of life and housing: whom we live with or open our home to and how permeable that boundary should be. The findings are presented in more than two hundred striking graphics, drawings, plans, and photographs. The book also features proposals for architectural interventions by laba’s students, all of them tackling issues of housing.
 

About the Author

Harry Gugger is professor of architecture and director of Laboratory Basel (laba), a Basel-based satellite studio of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Architecture.