Main entry:

Corbellini, Giovanni, 1959-

Title & Author:

Bioreboot : the architecture of R & Sie(n) / Giovanni Corbellini.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2009.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 x 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Milan, Italy : 22 Pub. S.r.l, ©2009.
Translated from Italian.
Includes bibliographical references.
R & Sie(n) : ecosophical apparatus & schizoid machines -- Anomalies: disturbed and disturbing architectures -- Multiple identity, utopia : I've hear about: open-source software for a habitable organism ; hypnochamber: unconscious urban planning test -- Fear and loathing / disorientation : Green gorgon: a system of uncertain places ; Olzweg: labyrinth of recycled glass ; Loophole: bridge on the Czech-Polish border -- Furtive tactics : Shearing: the invisible house ; Spidernethewood: labyrinth amidst branches, house without facades ; He shot me down: a robot on tracks going into the forest -- Base materialism : mi(pi) bar: excrescent wrapper for self-consumption ; Mosquito bottleneck: life and death of mosquitoes in the double skin of the housetrap -- Phantoms : Aqua alta: transparent capillary-effect pvc membranes ; b_mu/dustry relief: electrostatic collection of suspended urban dust -- Interstices : Waterflux: transformable museum of icy snow and lamellar wood -- Machines and narratives : Terra incognita: global warming and the apparition of the island of the albino penguin ; Hybrid muscle: animal traction generator -- Toxic ecologies : Swarm town: sustainable development, critical node of the capitalist future ; thegardensofearthlydelights: delights and dangers of a garden with medicinal plants -- (Un)plug: hairy photovoltaic building with mutant skin ; i'mlostinparis: home of the architect, with a hydroponically nourished plant covering -- Endlessness ... / with Giovanni Corbellini, François Roche, Alexandra Midal, Benoît Durandin, Joker.

Summary:

"Bioreboot features nineteen projects - illustrated with extensive plans, photographs, and renderings - along with essays and an interview, providing the most comprehensive monograph to date of this elusive, intriguing firm, led by Francois Roche and Stephanie Lavaux. Despite working with oppositonal relationships; machinery versus nature; purity versus corruption; paranoia versus rationality - theirs is an architecture whose primary aim is the ecological and social improvement of the place in which it exists. Bioreboot is a thought-provoking leap into the future and a clarion call for the development of a new relationship between contemporary architecture and the socionatural world."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9781568988696 (alk. paper ; pbk.)
1568988699 (alk. paper ; pbk.)

Subject:

R & Sie (Architectural firm)
Architecture and biology.
Architecture et biologie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 304171
Call No.: BIB 249669
Status: Available