Title & Author:

Dirt / edited by Megan Born, Helene Furján and Lily Jencks, with Phillip M. Crosby.

Publication:

Philadelphia : PennDesign ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.

Description:

321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

ViaBooks ; v. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Flashes of brilliance / Sylvia Lavin in conversation -- Autonomous worlds: the work of Larissa Fassler / Helene Furján -- Rumor / Keller Easterling -- The gleaming toys / Mark Campbell -- 6 ways of being a stranger / Lindsay Bremner -- Robert Le Ricolais: and the search for automorphic structure / Richard Wesley -- Things themselves are lying, and so are their images / Robert Le Ricolais -- At the boundaries of practice: the remaking of Spiral Jetty / Ruth Erickson -- Skull/kidney/skin / Kim Brickley -- On duration / Frank Matero -- So close you can touch it / Helene Furján -- Orbigraphia / Rhett Russo -- Branching morphogenesis: a tale of imagination, translation and visualization / Sabin+Jones LabStudio, essay by Annette Fierro -- Secret pact of parts: of plants and parametrics / Ferda Kolatan -- Live models / Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno -- Tickle the shitstem / Phoebe Washburn in conversation -- Between line and shadow / Marion Weiss in conversation -- Rising currents: contemporary design discourse / Barry Bergdoll -- The suburbs are dead, long live the suburbs! / John D. Landis -- Pathos and irony: industrial still-life in Japan / Tetsugo Hyakutake -- Dirty cities, dirtier policies: the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability / Mark Alan Hughes and William W. Braham in conversation -- FLUXscape: remapping Philadelphia's post-industrial terrain / Andrea Hansen -- Holey urbanisms / Phillip M. Crosby -- Root wordsW [sic] / Megan Born -- Ecology, for the evolution of planning and design / Ian McHarg -- A new systemic nature: for Mussolini's landscape urbanism / Alan Berger and Case Brown -- Surface in-depth: between landscape and architecture / Anita Berrizbeitia [and others] -- Waste and dirt: notes on the architecture of compost / William W. Braham -- Hydrophile: hydrodynamic green roof / Marcelyn Gow and Ulrika Karlsson -- Not garden / Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys -- An ornament of sustainability, or, how do I keep this damn orchid alive? / Lily Jencks.

Summary:

Dirt presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect's perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.

ISBN:

9780262516921 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262516926 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Design.
Landscape architecture.
Industrial design.
Architecture du paysage.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
landscape architecture (discipline)
Landschaftsarchitektur
Städtebau

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Born, Megan.
Furján, Helene Mary, 1966-
Jencks, Lily.
Crosby, Phillip M.
ViaBooks ; v. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277423
Call No.: BIB 212238
Status: Available