Title & Author:

Climates : architecture and the planetary imaginary / James Graham, editor ; Caitlin Blanchfield, managing editor.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City ; Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2016]
©2016

Description:

371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Earths -- The universals and the particulars of climate / Dipesh Chakrabarty in conversation with James Graham -- Seeing planetary change, down to the smallest wildflower / Deborah R. Cohen -- Notes from the wasteland: competing climatic imaginaries in the post-apocalyptic landscape / Jacob Boswell -- Gaïa Global Circus: a climate tragicomedy / Rainia Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy -- The magical ecology of Laudato Si' / Catherin Seavitt Nordenson -- Views from the Plastisphere: a preface to post-rock architecture / Meredith Miller -- Deep mapping / Jeanne Gang with Claire Cahan and Sarah Kramer -- Securing adjustable climate / Felicity D. Scott -- Political ecologies -- Scale as problem, architecture as trap / Adrian Lahoud -- Measure for the anthropocene / Neyran Turan -- Archives ofthe present-future: on climate change and representational breakdown / Emily Eliza Scott -- Waterdams and dispossession: ecology, security, colonization / Zeynep S. Akinci and Pelin Tan -- Evolutionary infrastructures / Marion Weiss and Michael A Manfredi -- The resistance problem: part 1 / Jesse M. Keenan -- Next-century collaboration between design and climate science / Kate Orff and Adam Sobel in conversation -- A third space: neither fully urban nor fully of the biosphere / Saskia Sassen -- An ecology of bodies / Ross Exo Adams -- Cloud formations: climate change and the figuration of community / Carson Chan -- Corporealities -- Molecular intimacy / Heather Davis -- Conduction / Philippe Rahm -- You are the weather: Philippe Rahm's A Sentimental Meteorology / Shantel Blakely -- Unseasonable fashion: a manifesto / Dehlia Hannah and Cynthia Selin -- Air conditioning: taming the climation as a dream of civilization / Eva Horn -- The atmosphere as a cultural object / Jorge Otero-Pailos -- Can you believe the weather we're having? The politics of the weather report / Phu Hoang -- Encounters with climate: a dossier of architectural precedents / with contributions by Stan Allen, Andreas Angelidakis, Diana Balmori, Deborah Berke, Ila Berman, Tatiana Bilbao, D. Graham Burnett, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Edward Eigen, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski, Walter Hood, Li Hu, Bjarke Ingels, Ziad Jamaleddine, Andrés Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Janette Kim, Chip Lord, Aya Maceda, Felipe Mesa, Umberto Napolitano, Caroline O'Donnell, Chris Reed, François Roche, David Schaefer and Im Schafer, Lola Seppard and Mason White, and Paulo Tavares -- Enclosures -- What does climate change? (For architecture) / Amale Andraos -- The form and climate research group, or scales of architectural history / Daniel A. Barber -- On membranes, masks, and Siegfried Ebeling's environmental Raumkubus / Pep Avilés -- Dehydrated architecture / Carolina González Vives -- The crystal: architecture calibratin climate change for the urban future / May Ee Wong -- Risk: exerpts from the environmental division of labor / Reinhold Martin -- Inhabiting the spaceship: the connected isolation of Masdar City / Gökçe Günel.

Summary:

This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interface of resiliency, sustain- ability, and ecotechnology? Climates also contains a dossier of precedents for thinking about architecture and climate change drawn from a number of leading practitioners. New approaches to understanding climate in architecture make this book invaluable. This publication is a project by The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783037784945 (alk. paper)
3037784946 (alk. paper)
9781941332276 (alk. paper)
1941332277 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and climate.
Architecture et climat.

Added entries:

Graham, James (Architect), editor.
Blanchfield, Caitlin, editor.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292992
Call No.: BIB 237587
Status: Available