Landform building : architecture's new terrain
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Landform building : architecture's new terrain
Lars Müller Publishers, c2011
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At bottom of t.p.: Princeton University, School of Architecture
"Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade in cooperation with Princeton University, School of Architecture"--Colophon
Includes index
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Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. 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.
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