Portugal Lessons : Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture

Harry Gugger, Augustin Clément, Barbara Costa, Tiago Trigo, Charlotte Truwant

ISBN 10: 3038601098 / ISBN 13: 9783038601098

Published by Park Books, Zürich, 2019

About this Item

Z : 212 pages, 161 color and 209 b/w illustrations, plans and graphics - Portugal Lessons: Imagining Architecture as Environmental Object takes Portugal as case study for such contextualism going beyond and understanding of design as immunization. Based on the latest research program conducted by EPFL s Laboratory Basel (laba), it explores the topic of this architectural boundary: with whom we live with, to whom we open our house, how permeable the boundary should be. The findings are visualized in striking images, graphics and maps. The book also features proposals for architectural interventions by laba s students, all of them tackling issues of housing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portugal Lessons : Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture
• Publisher: Park Books, Zürich
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3038601098
• ISBN 13: 9783038601098
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 21W x 31H x 0D centimeters 21 centimeters width by 31 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architektur
  • Architekturtheorie
  • architecture

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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.