Portugal lessons : environmental objects / editors, Harry Gugger [and four others] ; introduction, Bárbara Maçães Costa, Harry Gugger.

Zurich : Park Books, [2018]
©2018

210 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm

Teaching and research in architecture

Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a boundary, a form with an internalized point of view. Understanding architecture as environmental objects suggest a questioning of these dichotomies of separation between the symbolic landmark and the landscape background. It represents an architecture that amplifies nature, attunes to it and makes us aware of it. 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.

9783038601098 (paperback)
3038601098 (paperback)

E?cole polytechnique fe?de?rale de Lausanne.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Architecture Environmental aspects Portugal.
Architecture Environmental aspects Case studies.
Housing Environmental aspects Portugal.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Portugal.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Études de cas.
Architecture Environmental aspects
Housing Environmental aspects
Architekturstudium
Raumordnung
Portugal

Case studies
Études de cas.

Gugger, Harry, 1956- editor, writer of introduction.
Costa, Bárbara Maçães, writer of introduction.
École polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Laboratoire Bâle (laba) issuing body

Location: Library main 305452
Call No.: BIB 251288
Status: Available