design remedies for an ailing planet Lydia, Kallipoliti. text xxu London Wiley 2010 1st ed. monographic eng

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136 p. : 28 cm. This issue of AD explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of non-recyclable e-waste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an ill-managed planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world's salvation, yet rather upraises as a psycho-spatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as ‘EcoRedux', this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right; it recognises pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at first sight as science-fictional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own realms and operations. Contributors include: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner (HWKN), Fabiola López-Durán and Nikki Moore, Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley. Featured architects: Anna Pla Catalá, Jonathan Enns, Eva Franch-Gilabert. Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One), François Roche (R&Sie(n)), Rafi Segal, Alexandros Tsamis and Eric Vergne. Kallipoliti Lydia. Architecture Environmental aspects Sustainable architecture Environmentalism 720.47 ECO 2010 v. 80, no. 6 0470746629 (paperback) 9780470746622 (paperback) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470746629/chopaconline-20 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470746629/chopaconline-20 120329 20180116192408.0 ASIN0470746629