Architecture in the Anthropocene
by Etienne Turpin (ed.)
Publisher: Open Humanities Press 2013
ISBN/ASIN: 1607853078
ISBN-13: 9781607853077
Number of pages: 264
Description:
This volume brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(12MB, PDF)
Similar books
Cities Full of Symbols: A Theory of Urban Space and Cultureby Peter J. M. Nas (ed.) - Leiden University Press
The book develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Architects, sociologists and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding.
(10960 views)
Architecture and Democracyby Claude Fayette Bragdon - A. A. Knopf
This book was written in the scant intervals afforded by the practice of the profession of architecture, so broadened as to include the study of abstract form, the creation of ornament, experiments with color and light, and educational activities.
(11942 views)
Building Greenby Anne Rademacher - University of California Press
Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. Author offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this form of urban expertise.
(8735 views)
The Seven Lamps of Architectureby John Ruskin - Project Gutenberg
Essay on architecture by John Ruskin, published in 1849. According to Ruskin, the leading principles of architecture are the 'lamps' of Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. The noblest style of architecture was Gothic.
(14614 views)