Title & Author:

Relational architectural ecologies : architecture, nature and subjectivity / edited by Peg Rawes.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biopolitical Ecologies and Architectures -- Uncertain, Anxious and Damaged Ecologies -- Economics, Land and Consumption -- Biological and Medical Architectural Ecologies -- Communal Ecologies and Architectures.
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:

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the 'habitats', 'natural milieus', 'places' or 'shelters' that construct architectural ecologies are composed of complex and dynamic material, spatial, social, political, economic and ecological concerns. With contributions from a range of leading international experts and academics in architecture, art, anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, law, medicine and political science, this volume offers professionals and researchers engaged in the social and cultural biodiversity of built environments, new interdisciplinary perspectives on the relational and architectural ecologies which are required for dealing with the complex issues of sustainable human habitation and environmental action. The book provides: sixteen essays, including two visual essays, by leading international experts and academics from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Rosi Braidotti, Lorraine Code, Verena Andermatt Conley and Elizabeth Grosz; a clear structure: divided into five parts addressing biopolitical ecologies and architectures; uncertain, anxious and damaged ecologies; economics, land and consumption; biological and medical architectural ecologies; relational ecological practices and architectures; an exploration of the relations between human and political life; an examination of issues such as climate change, social and environmental well-being, land and consumption, economically damaging global approaches to design, community ecologies and future architectural practice.

ISBN:

9780415508575 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415508576 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415508582 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415508584 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780203770283
0203770285 (ePub ebook)
9780203770283 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture and society.
Human ecology.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture et société.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.
Architecture Aspect environnemental.
Architecture Philosophie.

Added entries:

Rawes, Peg, editor.
Rawes, Peg. editor of compilation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284612
Call No.: BIB 223675
Status: Available