Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain

ISBN 10: 3037782234 / ISBN 13: 9783037782231

Published by Lars Muller, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain
• Publisher: Lars Muller
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037782234
• ISBN 13: 9783037782231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

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Synopsis

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.

About the Author

Stan Allen is an architect practicing in New York and dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University. Marc McQuade is an architect at Adjaye Associates in New York.