Title & Author:

ECO-TEC : architecture of the in-between / Amerigo Marras, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.

Description:

137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

StoreFront books ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Hybrids, Fusions, and Architecture of the In-Between / Amerigo Marras -- The Ecology of the Artificial. The Object of Ecosophy / Felix Guattari. The Nonlinear Development of Cities / Manuel De Landa. Smog Monster: Environmental Notes from the Pac-Rim / Neil Denari. Recycling Recycling / Mark Wigley. The Persistence of Industrial Memory / Mark Dery. I See ... the insurgent mechanics of infection / Mel Chin -- The Technology of the Natural. Stochastic Chaos, Symmetry, and Scale Invariance: From Art to the Weather and Back Again / Shaun Lovejoy and D. Schertzer. Topology of an Island City / Jean Gardner. Jewel in the Balance / James Wines. Revegetation of Asbestos Mine Wastes / Alan J.M. Baker. Heartfelt: A Site-Specific Portrait / Mel Chin.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

ECO-TEC probes the fusion between ecology and technology, to go beyond prevailing theories of sustainability and suggest a new role for architecture. It serves to reassess our collective ecological and technological illiteracy by placing a priority on learning from nature and taking care of nature in the buildings and communities we design, build, and occupy. The thirteen essays in ECO-TEC stem from a series of international forums and workshops sponsored by StoreFront for Art and Architecture. It brings together biologists, physicists, geologists, artists, architects and social critics writing on such diverse subjects as the relevance of nanotechnology in architecture, and the renovation of an abandoned asbestos factory.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568981597 (pbk.)
9781568981598 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Environmental sciences.
Human ecology.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Sciences de l'environnement.
Écologie humaine.
environmental sciences.
human ecology.
Architektur
Ökologie
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Marras, Amerigo, 1948-
StoreFront books ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204387
Call No.: NA2542.35 E34 1999
Status: Available