Main entry:

Mithal, Sonal, author.

Title & Author:

Living together : more-than-human ecologies for architectural thinking / Sonal Mithal, Akshar Gajjar.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2025]

Description:

191 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword: in the aftermath of the devastation of environment-worlds -- Introduction -- Life in ruins: a multispecies alliance -- Ruin ecology: medium for decolonizing histories -- From feminist ecologies to architectural thinking: formulating a vocabulary -- Tentacularity -- Hybridity -- Prothetics -- Vacancy -- Receptivity -- Indeterminacy -- Mapping the sentient ruin -- Mapping interdependencies -- Interdependencies at the New Commercial Mill -- Interdependencies at Pickers Mill -- Interdependencies at an abandoned Basalt Quarry in Champaner -- Persistent Queering -- Ecotone architecture- articulations of posthumanist elemental assemblages -- Tentacular architecture -- Receptive architecture -- Architecture of indeterminacy -- Architecture of networks -- Architecture of eventual hybridity -- Architecture of prosthetics.

Summary:

"What does it mean for architecture to be a truly collaborative venture where plants and other species also exercise their agency? This would mean to make architecture receptive--physically, premised on creating spaces for accommodating multispecies; and intellectually, premised on becoming aware of the needs of more-than-humans. Design-based approaches whether technocratic or demonstrating a theoretical standpoint are fragmented today and demand a holistic approach. Living Together positions itself in that fragmentation. The book is an inquiry into an architecture which allows multispecies alliances to take place. It brings materialist and ecological inquiries to architectural design, practice, and thinking; acknowledging a necessity to go beyond established architectural ideals of progress, monumentality, longevity, and permanence"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783035628159 paperback
3035628157 paperback

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Plants in architecture.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture durable.

Added entries:

Gajjar, Akshar, 1998- author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325225
Call No.: 325225
Copy: 1
Status: Available