Landform building  architecture's new terrain  txt 
 Architecture's new terrain 
edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade. 
 - 479 p.  ill. (some col.), plans  25 cm.  book 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>From the biological to the geological / Stan Allen -- Between geology and politics : a debate with Iñaki Ábalos, Stan Allen, Michael Maltzan, Vicente Guallart, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Nader Tehrani, Mario Weiss, Michael Manfredi, Sarah Whiting, moderated by Mirko Zardini -- Seeming seamless / Mirko Zardini -- Form: artificial mountains. Geological form / Stan Allen ; Found ice : Berlin, August 2000 / Tacita Dean ; Biblioteca España / Giancarlo Mazzanti & Architects ; Museo Territorio de las Migraciones / Mansilla+Tuñón arquitectos ; The mountain / BIG ; Five questions / Bjarke Ingels interviewed by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade ; On mountains : scalable and unscalable / Michael Jakob -- The Great Rock / Péter Kis, Miklós Persányi, and Márta Szabon -- Scale : megaform. The megaform revisited / Stan Allen ; Visual scandals / Tsunehisa Kimura ; Vanke Center / Steven Holl Architects ; Gwanggyo Pier Lakeside Park / SAA Stan Allen Architect ; Ewha Women's University / Dominique Perrault Architecture ; Megaform as urban landscape / Kenneth Frampton ; Discussion / Stan Allen, Kenneth Frampton, and Hashim Sarkis -- The vertical park and Spina Tower / Iñaki Ábalos -- Atmosphere : vast interiors. Nature in the plural / Stan Allen ; Alpine landscapes / Walter Niedermayr ; Kait Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Junya.Ishigami+Associates ; Hormonorium / Philippe Rahm ; Teshima Art Museum / Office of Ryue Nishizawa ; The vast and the empty / Reyner Banham -- Lonar Crater / Adam Maloof and Situ Studio -- Process : fabricating terrain. Matters of surface / Stan Allen ; Scanning double negative / Chris Taylor ; Villa Moda / Office DA ; Mashouf Performing Arts Center / Michael Maltzan ; Ghent Forum for Music, Dance and Visual Culture / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects ; Organize/optimize/simplify/materialize / Fabian Scheurer interviewed by Marc McQuade ; Engineering the EPFL Rolex Learning Center / Bollinger+Grohm -- The architectural reconstruction of nature / David Gissen. 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783037782231 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Space Architecture<br/>Landscape design<br/>Architecture, Modern--21st century<br/>Architectural design.--Enviromental aspects.<br/>Architectural design.