Title & Author:

Habitat : ecology thinking in architecture / Dirk van den Heuvel, Janno Martens, Víctor Muñoz Sanz (eds.) ; texts, Guus Beumer [and seven others].

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2020]
©2020

Description:

175 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Habitat and architecture: disruption and expansion / Dirk van den Heuvel -- Between Habiter and Habitat: Ciam and the Sigtuna meeting of 1952 / Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi -- From microchips to total cities: Fritz Haller's system thinking / Georg Vrachliotis -- A habitat waiting to be: the northern aviary in the London Zoo / Hadas A. Steiner -- Architecture and ecological psychology: RAAAF's explorations of affordances / Erik Rietveld and Janno Martens -- Retracting habitat: growth channels in the Dutch delta / Frits Palmboom -- Habitat 1956 (Dubrovnik Scroll) / Alison and Peter Smithson -- Social spaces (presentations at CIAM 10 - Micro-scale) -- Landscape interventions (presentations at CIAM 10 - Macro-scale) -- Psycho-analysis of the delta landscape (maps) / Pjotr Gonggrijp -- Tanthof Delft (designs) / Van den Broek and Bakema, Tanthof Working Group and Joost Váhl -- Patchwork metropolis (regional study) / Willem Jan Neutelings -- The new Netherlands 2050 (scenarios for Nederland Nu Als Ontwerp) / Peter Terreehorst -- Urbanized landscapes (analyses and designs) / Frits Palmboom.

Summary:

Today, under the pressure of climate change and ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication 'Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture' aims to highlight some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field. The book will point out the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual and relational. By demonstrating the continuities, disruptions and transformations at stake, the book will deepen the ongoing conversations, while suggesting directions for future research. Based on selections from the archival resources of the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and with additional materials from international archives, the book presents a lavish documentation of design proposals and research projects that map key positions since the 1950s, when the idea of "habitat" was first investigated to reconceptualize architecture and its larger purpose, especially in the circles of the CIAM and Team 10.

ISBN:

9789462085565
9462085560

Subject:

Team 10.
International Congress for Modern Architecture
International Congresses for Modern Architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Environmentalism.
Sustainable living.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnementalisme.
Style de vie durable.

Added entries:

Heuvel, Dirk van den, 1968- editor.
Martens, Janno, editor.
Muñoz Sanz, Víctor, editor.

Ecology thinking in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308635
Call No.: BIB 253998
Status: Available