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David Gissen - Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment - 9780470721650 - V9780470721650
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Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment

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Description for Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment Paperback. Advancing new relationships between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production ofarchitectural objects and their surrounding environment. Series: Architectural Design. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 211 x 10. Weight in Grams: 568.
Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Architectural Design
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780470721650
SKU
V9780470721650
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About David Gissen
David Gissen is a historian, theorist and self-proclaimed ‘experimental’ historian of architecture and urbanism. His work explores histories and theories of nature within architecture, relationships between geographical thought and architecture, and various critical-alternative methodologies within architectural history. His writings and historical projects have been published in books and journals and he has lectured on his research internationally. Much of ... Read more

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