Above the Pavement-the Farm: Architectural & Agriculture at P. F. 1 - Softcover

Amale Andraos; Dan Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568989350 ISBN 13: 9781568989358

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

Synopsis

Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pavs, la plage! (Beneath the pavement, the beach!), a new form of radical expression took shape at MoMA's P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York. Above the Pavement--the Farm! reveals the groundbreaking efforts of architecture firm WORKac and their team of more than 150 collaborators--farmers, politicians, horticulturists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, architecture students, and artists--to create a working urban farm, hoisted 30 feet high, using industrial cardboard tubes filled with more than 50 varieties of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Called Public Farm 1 (P.F.1), this new breed of sustainable infrastructure, capable of generating its own power, recycling rainwater, cultivating crops, and encouraging leisure, demonstrated that even the most impossibly utopian visions of green city living are within our reach.Above the Pavement--the Farm! presents a delectable range o

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About the Author:

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood are the founders of New York City-based WORK Architecture Company.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1568989350
• ISBN 13: 9781568989358
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208