architecture's new terrain Allan, Stan. McQuade, Marc. text sz 2011 monographic eng spa

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479 p. ill. (some col.), plans 25 cm. "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." 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. edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade. Includes bibliographical references and index. Space Architecture Landscape design Architecture, Modern 21st century Architectural design Enviromental aspects Architectural design 9783037782231 pucpr 091512 20200304143158.0 eng