Main entry:

Agrest, Diana, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture of nature : nature of architecture / Diana Agrest ; with Yael Agmon ; with contributions by D. Graham Burnett, Peter Louis Galison, Caroline A. Jones and John McPhee.

Publication:

[Novato, CA] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2018]
©2018

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Expanding boundaries: architecture, nature, science, representation / Diana Agrest -- Work: Liquid tectonics, phantom surge, subductions and transformations of the Mantle Rock, Fire and Ice, Fire and Water, Oblique tectonics, moving plates and stationary hotspots, life, death, and regeneration of coral reefs -- Constructions of nature: representation as product / Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones interviewed by Diana Agrest / Work: invisible clouds, nuclear testing and radioactive spaces, a dissolving landscape, traces of choreography of fractures, residual surface, between erosion and sedimentation: water flow and land mass, between two waters: disaster as opportunity, growth in anoxic conditions -- Sea Cliffs and the sublime: a conversation / Graham D. Burnett interviewed by Diana Agrest -- Work: Salt domes, chronicle of eroding forces, an Aeolian sense: configuring power of an invisible force field, water motion in a topographical vessel, impact and flow, manipulated life cycles, frozen flow, transformative materiality,[Perma] frost landscape, subterranean channels -- Basin and range: geologic time / John McPhee -- Work: Permafrost: interactions and tranformations of states of matter, salt of the earth, rock, fire, and water: interactions in constant motion, algae as habitat, sequoia as gestalt, clouds as transformational tools, cyclical migration, colliding matters, tornadogenesis and topography -- The return of the repressed: nature / Diana Agrest.

Summary:

Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, this book explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect's modes of seeing and techniques of representation. It presents research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio 'Architecture of Nature/ Nature of Architecture', created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. 'Architecture of Nature' departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.

ISBN:

9781939621948 (hardback)
1939621941 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Philosophy of nature.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Architecture Philosophie.
Philosophie de la nature.
Nature (Esthétique)

Added entries:

Agmon, Yael, author.
Burnett, D. Graham, contributor.
McPhee, John Angus, contributor.
Galison, Peter Louis, contributor.
Jones, Caroline A., contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304242
Call No.: BIB 249740
Status: Available