Taking Shape

A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature

Susannah Hagan

215 pages, parution le 06/05/2004

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Résumé

'In recent times, the architecture/nature discussion has encouraged a dual response: architects have built in the image of nature - a token environmentalism - while environmentalists have focused too narrowly on the technologies of ecology and sustainability, invariably without paying sufficient attention to spatial and visual issues. In this book, Hagan argues for a new relationship between architecture and nature: a contract that renegotiates the tension between environmental processes and their formal consequences. 'Taking Shape' makes a major and provocative contribution to the debates concerning the ethics and aesthetics of environmentalism within architecture and urban design.'

Mohsen Mostafavi, Chairman, The Architectural Association

Taking Shape explores the evolution of scientific and academic theories that have resulted in the concept of sustainability. Susannah Hagan uses this as a basis to argue for developments in the future and argues that these theories are not 'just an intellectual and aesthetic regression' as they are often perceived to be. By focusing on the impact of the new theories of sustainable technology and new materials in architecture, Hagan moves the discourse and practice of environmental sustainability within architecture towards a greater degree of awareness of both its cultural significance and cultural potential. In short, it demonstrates the capacity of sustainable architecture to embrace cultural and technical innovation.

L'auteur - Susannah Hagan

Susannah Hagan BA (hons) MA Arch, AA Dip
Course leader, MA Architecture: Sustainability; AA Graduate School teaching staff

Sommaire

Defining Environmental Architecture
The 'New' Nature and a New Architecture
A Post-Imperial Modernism
Ethics and Environmental Design
Materials and Materiality
Rules of Engagement
Doing It
ComplexCity
Conclusion

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Susannah Hagan
Parution	06/05/2004
Nb. de pages	215
Format	22 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	940g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750649483
ISBN13	978-0-7506-4948-3