Landform Building
Author | : Stan Allen |
Publisher | : Lars Muller Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 3037782234 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783037782231 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Download or read book Landform Building written by Stan Allen and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.