Main entry:

Moe, Kiel, author.

Title & Author:

Unless / Kiel Moe.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2020]
©2020

Description:

300 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: Unless -- Introduction: The Terrestrial Life of Large Urban Spaces -- Framework: The Architecture of Uneven Exchange -- Framework: Construction Ecology -- Terrestrials: Technomass and Technofossils -- Production: Dies, Dyes and Dies -- Place: Transparency: Literal and Terrestrial -- People: Getting Stone -- Conclusion: Gala is in the Details.

Summary:

Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A beautiful building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Unless architects begin to describe buildings as terrestrial events and artifacts, architects will to our collective and professional peril continue to operate outside the key environmental dynamics and key political processes of this century.

ISBN:

9781948765398 hardcover
194876539X hardcover

Subject:

Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.)
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.

Added entries:

Unless : the seagram building construction ecology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309539
Call No.: BIB 254762
Status: Available