Architecture as environmental media : rendering the planetary / edited by Daniel Jacobs.

Title & Author:

Architecture as environmental media : rendering the planetary / edited by Daniel Jacobs.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.
©2026

Description:

xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:

"This edited volume explores the agency of environmental media in architectural production. As design disciplines confront the changing landscapes and consequences of climate breakdown, media for communicating socio-environmental relations play an increasingly critical role in defining new narratives for the future of our planet. To confront the Anthropocene, designers must increasingly move between scales and across disciplines to develop new structures of knowledge and tools of representation: from the embodied to the technical, the investigative to the projective. Ultimately, this volume asks: What stakes are embedded in contemporary architectural environmental media, and how are designers re-imagining this media landscape today? Chapters in the book explore counter-cartographies of migration and materials, forest ecologies and theories of abundance, hyperreal visualization and environmental simulation, architecture's extractive and colonial systems, and pedagogies and practices for environmental futures. This book organizes these efforts into three threads of media practice: rendering visible, rendering sensible, and rendering actionable. While these categories are inextricably intertwined, they represent distinct tactical approaches to media production, each exploring possible methods to develop new knowledge systems, shift aesthetic regimes, and transform collective politics. Exploring architecture and design through the lenses of media theory, environmental studies, visual studies, geography, and landscape, this book will engage students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032787145 hardcover
1032787147 hardcover
9781032787114 paperback
1032787112 paperback
electronic book
9781003489146

Subject:

Mass media and architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Médias et architecture.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Jacobs, Daniel, 1988- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324104
Call No.: 324104
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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