Description
Book SynopsisAdvancing new relationships between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production ofarchitectural objects and their surrounding environment.
Table of ContentsEditorial (Helen Castle). About the Guest-Editor (David Gissen).
Introduction
Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment (David Gissen).
Eat Me … Drink Me … (Sean Lally/WEATHERS).
The Tree Canopy as Blueprint (Mitchell Schwarzer).
The Ecological Facades of Patrick Blanc (Matthew Gandy).
Bugs, Bats and Animal Estates: The Architectural Territories of ‘Wild Beasts’ (Ben Campkin).
The Material Transformations of AMID (cero9) Social Oxygen Balloons (David Gissen).
It’s in Your Nature: I’m Lost in Paris (Javier Arbona).
Toxic Territories (David Gissen).
The Living: Surface Tensions (Jordan Geiger).
Amphibious Territories (Ila Berman).
The Aurora Project (Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno (Future Cities Lab)).
The Perils of Historical Geography: On a Pretended Lost Map to a Legendary Sunken Forest (Edward Eigen).
Local Code: Real Estates (Nicholas de Monchaux).
What Has Happened to Territory? (Antoine Picon).
Interior Eye.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Howard Watson).
Building Profile.
Antwerp Central and Liège-Guillemins, Belgium (David Littlefield).
Practice Profile
ecoLogicStudio (Terri Peters).
Spiller’s Bits.
Fiddling While the World Burns (Neil Spiller).
Unit Factor.
Emergence and the Forms of Cities (Michael Weinstock).
Userscape.
Relational Interactive Architecture (Valentina Croci).
Yeang’s Eco-Files.
Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Building’s Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process (Michael Bendewald, Victor Olgyay (RMI) and Ken Yeang).
McLean’s Nuggets (Will McLean).
Site Lines.
MAXXI, Rome: Zaha Hadid Architects (Mark Garcia).
