Title & Author:

Landscape futures : instruments, devices and architectural inventions / edited by Geoff Manaugh.

Publication:

Barcelona : Actar, [2013]
©2013

Description:

307 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Nevada Museum of Art.
Includes bibliographical references.
History's Apparatus / David Gissen -- Active Layer / Lola Sheppard -- Insect Spectacles / Chris Woebken -- Living Interface / Soo-In Yang -- Architectural Monsterology / Liam Young -- Superscape / Laura Allen -- Work -- Sourcebook -- Landscape Futures Super-Workshop by Geoff Manaugh -- Journey to the Top of the City of Los Angeles by Center for Land Use Interpretation -- OIAML: Oceanographic Instrumentation and Mediated Landscapes / Rob Holmes -- Buried Treasure / Jan Zalasiewicz -- Doppler / Rob Holmes -- Climate Engineers / James Fleming -- Architectural Production of Nature, Dendur/New York / David Gissen -- (Im)possible Chicagos / Alexander Trevi -- Instantaneous Lines / Smudge Studio -- Delta Pen / Scott Geiger -- Mauna Loa Observatory / Rob Holmes -- Sensory Devices / Cassim Shepard -- Mobile Geodesy / Rob Holmes -- Landscape in Suspension / Sam Jacob.

Summary:

This work travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales - from the handheld to the inhabitable - reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a room-sized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fictions as a means of exploring different futures.

ISBN:

8415391145 (paperback)
9788415391142 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Creative ability.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Créativité.
creativity.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Manaugh, Geoff, editor.
Nevada Museum of Art, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284196
Call No.: BIB 222891
Status: Available