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xiii, 78 pages ; 20 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1979.
Thermal delight in architecture / Lisa Heschong.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1979.
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This important book tells the multifaceted story of humankind’s relationship with flooding, a story that is permeated with a history of both worship and fear. Modern water engineering has turned plains and valleys into fully inhabitable environments. At the same time, those environments have become highly vulnerable to climate change. In efforts to prevent future floods,(...)
Floodscapes: contemporary landscape strategies in times of climate change
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This important book tells the multifaceted story of humankind’s relationship with flooding, a story that is permeated with a history of both worship and fear. Modern water engineering has turned plains and valleys into fully inhabitable environments. At the same time, those environments have become highly vulnerable to climate change. In efforts to prevent future floods, countries are rediscovering adaptation strategies: making room for flooding, redistributing risks and reconsidering the use and legal status of floodplains. Through historical investigations and six contemporary projects implemented in four European countries, "Floodscapes" illustrates how flood-mitigation measures can be embedded in local space and culture. Merged with landscape development, agriculture, recreation, nature, and even urban growth, river management becomes a design issue, giving landscape architects and urban designers a prominent role in future transitions. This book provides an in-depth look into the most common natural disaster in the US, and the innovative solutions that have arisen.
Environment and environmental theory
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The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help(...)
Architectural Theory
April 2022
Accumulation: the art, architecture and media of climate change
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The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments. The essays in ''Accumulation'' address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis. They offer a response to the relative invisibility of the climate now seen as material manifestations of social behavior. Contributors outline opportunities and ambitions of visual scholarship as a means to encounter the challenges emergent in the current moment: how can climate become visible, culturally and politically? Knowledge of climatic instability can change collective behavior and offer other trajectories, counteraccumulations that draw the present into a different, more livable, future.
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296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, plans ; 30 cm
München : Edition Detail, [2024], ©2024
Bauen im Bestand : Wohnen = Building in existing contexts : living / Herausgeberin, Sandra Hofmeister.
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München : Edition Detail, [2024], ©2024
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A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis.
Extreme cities: the peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change
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A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis.
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155 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 22 cm.
Salzburg : M. Salzmann Verlag, ©2010.
Form & energy : Architektur in / aus Österreich / [Kuratoren: Otto Kapfinger, Adolph Stiller ; Katalog: Otto Kapfinger ; Redaktion: Eva Guttmann, Otto Kapfinger].
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155 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 22 cm.
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Salzburg : M. Salzmann Verlag, ©2010.
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Increasingly and forebodingly, contemporary artists are turning their attention to the subject of climate change, in poignant and often confrontational ways. "The edge of the Earth: climate change in photography and video" explores recent and historic work in the context of present-day environmental concerns, considering the future consequences of the age of the(...)
Environment and environmental theory
November 2016
The edge of the earth: climate change in photography and video
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Increasingly and forebodingly, contemporary artists are turning their attention to the subject of climate change, in poignant and often confrontational ways. "The edge of the Earth: climate change in photography and video" explores recent and historic work in the context of present-day environmental concerns, considering the future consequences of the age of the anthropocene, and humanity's harsh imprint on our planet. "The edge of the Earth" accompanies a major exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, and includes works by pioneering and renowned artists such as Edward Burtynsky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Richard Misrach and Robert Rauschenberg; critical propositions on present situations by Chris Jordan, Gideon Mendel and Brandi Merolla; plus visionary works by Jean-Pierre Aube, Adrien Missika, Evariste Richer and Andreas Rutkauskas. Photojournalism from the RIC s Black Star Collection is also included, contextualising artistic reflections within half a century of historical reportage on the environment. Produced as a large-format book with high-quality reproductions throughout, "The edge of the Earth" includes critical texts by Benedicte Ramade and TJ Demos and an introduction by Paul Roth. This critical overview offers the insight of artists into the present climate crisis, with the motive of prompting reconsideration of our increasingly perilous relationship to our planet.
Environment and environmental theory
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Architecture and construction are at a turning point. They account for more than 40% of global CO2 emissions. Rising temperatures can only be reduced if there is a radical change in the field of construction throughout the world. However, how should we design our cities, buildings and living spaces so that we can get closer to the goal of decarbonisation? The book gives(...)
Architecture and climate change: 20 interviews on the future of building
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Architecture and construction are at a turning point. They account for more than 40% of global CO2 emissions. Rising temperatures can only be reduced if there is a radical change in the field of construction throughout the world. However, how should we design our cities, buildings and living spaces so that we can get closer to the goal of decarbonisation? The book gives 20 architects and urban planners their say on the future of construction. Voices are heard from Mexico to Kenya – from Bangladesh to Switzerland. In the interviews experts give an account of their own experiences with climate-friendly construction as well as regional problems posed by rising CO2emissions. They explain pioneering projects and combine them with their personal desire and political ideals.
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374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
London : Reaktion Books, ©2010.
The matter of air : science and the art of the ethereal / Steven Connor.
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374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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London : Reaktion Books, ©2010.
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234 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2021]
Preservation, sustainability, and equity / edited by Erica Avrami.
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234 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2021]