Archilab's Earth Buildings: Radical Experiments in Land Arch.
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Archilab's Earth Buildings: Radical Experiments in Land Arch. by Marie-Ange Brayer
This third volume in a series presenting young architecture and design talents - Brayer and Simonot co-edited the previous two focusing on global architecture and living space - turns its attention to building with the land. Projects by 30 innovative young practices - including Field Operations, Tom Leader, NOX, Servo, Vicente Guallart and Kengo Kuma - confront and offer proposals and solutions to such issues as dwindling natural resources, land engineering, the city as ecosystem and the sensitive development of brown sites. Presented through extensive plans, computer renderings and photographs, buildings and larger-scale schemes reveal an almost infinite array of breathtaking ideas for the future, an inspiration for a generation of designers, practitioners and policy makers. Essays by international critics Frederic Migayrou, Bart Lootsma, Manuel Gausa and others consider the earth's economy and suggest how contemporary architects might best and most responsibly consider respond to our fragile planet in a technology-driven age.
Marie-Ange Brayer is the director of the FRAC, a government-funded regional art collection based in Orleans, France, with one of the largest collections of contemporary architectural models and drawings in the world. She is also the organizer of the celebrated annual ArchiLab conference in Orleans. Beatrice Simonot is co-curator of the ArchiLab conference in Orleans and a frequent contributor to European architectural journals. Both co-edited ArchiLab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture (2001) and ArchiLab's FutureHouse: Radical Experiments in Living Space (2002) published by Thames & Hudson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500284124 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500284121 |
| Title | Archilab's Earth Buildings: Radical Experiments in Land Arch. |
| Author | Marie-Ange Brayer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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