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Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’, ‘places’ or ‘shelters’ that construct architectural ecologies are composed of complex and dynamic material, spatial, social, political, economic and ecological concerns. With contributions from a range of leading international experts and academics in architecture, art, anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, law, medicine and political science, this volume offers professionals and researchers engaged in the social and cultural biodiversity of built environments, new interdisciplinary perspectives on the relational and architectural ecologies which are required for dealing with the complex issues of sustainable human habitation and environmental action. The book provides: 16 essays, including two visual essays, by leading international experts and academics from the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe; including Rosi Braidotti, Lorraine Code, Verena Andermatt Conley and Elizabeth Grosz A clear structure: divided into 5 parts addressing bio-political ecologies and architectures; uncertain, anxious and damaged ecologies; economics, land and consumption; biological and medical architectural ecologies; relational ecological practices and architectures An exploration of the relations between human and political life An examination of issues such as climate change, social and environmental well-being, land and consumption, economically damaging global approaches to design, community ecologies and future architectural practice.
Popular notions of sustainability in architecture and urbanism idealizes nature as primary over the mediated complexity that is inevitable in a modern city's functioning. More specifically, contemporary ecological debates and models have failed to sufficiently account for the convergence of computers, automation and machine intelligence with the physical and social environments that is gradually emerging in the post-digital condition. The following publication takes an ecological view to interpret critically the micro-ecology of Amazon's automated warehouses which rely on adaptive machine intelligence which is further examined critically within the framework of cybernetic systems. Paradoxically, it also happens to thrive within the logic of the dominant global mode of consumption and production which is capitalism. Most importantly, this relational ecology lies at the intersection of the mediated complexity where the digital and physical worlds meet.
For Dutch see below. --ENGLISH-- Today, under the pressure of climate change and ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture aims to highlight some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field. The book will point out the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual and relational. By demonstrating the continuities, disruptions and transformations at stake, the book will deepen the ongoing conversations, while suggesting directions for future research. Based on selections from the archival resources of the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and with additional materials from international archives, the book presents a lavish documentation of design proposals and research projects that map key positions since the 1950s, when the idea of 'habitat' was first investigated to reconceptualize architecture and its larger purpose, especially in the circles of the CIAM and Team 10. --NEDERLANDS-- In het zicht van de klimaatverandering en de op handen zijnde ecologische catastrofe is milieubewustzijn vandaag de dag een belangrijke reden om de architectonische discipline te heroverwegen. Het boek Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture belicht sommige van de historische bronnen van de ecologische opvattingen die ten grondslag liggen aan de hervormingen die momenteel plaatsvinden in de architectuur. Er wordt aandacht besteed aan de paradigmatische verschuiving in het denken over de gebouwde omgeving als iets dat inherent contextueel en relationeel is. Dit boek beschrijft de continuïteit, onderbrekingen en transformaties die er aan de orde zijn en intensiveert niet alleen het huidige debat, maar biedt ook suggesties voor toekomstig onderzoek. Op basis van selecties uit de archieven van de nationale collectie van Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam en aanvullend materiaal uit internationale archieven wordt in dit boek een uitgebreide documentatie van ontwerpvoorstellen en onderzoeksprojecten gepresenteerd. Het biedt een overzicht van sleutelposities sinds de jaren 1950, toen het concept 'habitat' voor het eerst werd onderzocht in een poging de architectuur en haar doel in het algemeen te heroverwegen, met name in de kringen van het CIAM en Team 10. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
This volume focuses on the question of how people might see and understand the natural and built environments in a deeper, more perceptive way. Why are places important to people, and can designers and policy-makers create better places? Contributors include architects, philosophers and architects.
Speaking of Cultural Ecology --Pre-modern Home Economics -- Rustica and Urbana -- Up on the Roof -- Pre-modern Cloisters and Precincts -- Alone-Together Naturally -- Into the Desert -- Answering Disequilibrium
Footprint 28' examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to include ecologies of ideas, power, institutions, media and so on. In this sense, cyberneticisation is radically environmental, positing the primacy of relations over fixed terms, binary oppositions and linear logics, making it high time for architectural and urban studies to take into consideration its ground-breaking potentials.00While there have been significant discussions on the relevance of cybernetics within architectural and urban studies, focus was mainly placed on computing and digital practices. The influence of cybernetics towards formulating an alternative ecological ? i.e. relational ? account has been mostly neglected. However, the Anthropocene, both as a discourse and a material condition, has brought to light the need to rethink environmental histories and environmentalism in architecture beyond reductive binary logics. The once separate categories of culture and environment now give way to an ecological approach where they appear as co-constructed, providing a broader transdisciplinary circuit to explore the logics of living systems in ways that are not restricted to anthropocentrism.
As a nation built upon the sustenance of its natural ecologies, it has now found itself in an era of trepidation. New Zealand's national branding has been accused of 'green washing' on the international stage threatening the tourist industry vital to the economy. However the sincerity of the nations perpetuated myth lies with an ecology in crisis. Diagnosed as the Anthropocene hypothesis, an emerging geological epoch that reveals mankind as a geological force with the insistence to rupture, rearticulate and erase entire ecosystems of species. Rather, this thesis argues to employ the hypothesis as a provocative proposal to reimagine architectural practice and it's relationship to nature. This raises the question: can architecture be an activist in biological conservation to define a form of co-existence between the 'natural' and 'man-made'? Acclaimed theorist Elizabeth Grosz reconsiders architectural practice in relation to temporal qualities in regards to the geologic and biologic. Given this disposition, precedents were sought to define a mode of co-existence, established through the conditions of longevity, transformation and change, to address the contextual, historical and political milieu in relation to the conservation estate. Informed by these precedents this thesis attempts to intervene in the 'iconic' to serve as a vast repository for the country's most valuable asset: Biodiversity. UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tongariro National Park, an iconic site particularly vulnerable to commercial interests, serves as a 'specimen' to promote an alternative conservation facility. The scheme welcomes an influx of natural phenomena as a resource rather than excluding it as an inconvenience to augment the relationship between architecture and landscape. Thus the dogma of intervening in pristine environments is re-negotiated to propose a positive occupation of their spatial territory, where the insertion of architecture holds the anxiety of a destructive force latent within the national psyche. The architecture does not conform to an urban timeframe, rather its form and occupation are reciprocal to the cycles of nature, linking the disparate entites of people, place and ecology through an architectural apparatus to form a symbiotic designed ecology..