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This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the de­structive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated.Material Reform presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their day-to-day work. Texts centred around key concepts including labour, time, maintenance, language, land, and touch are interwoven with a visual essay reckoning with the processes that have transformed industrialised landscapes at different scales of experience and resolution. Through text and visuals, con­cepts and practice, this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors. These discursive threads come together to form a vital sourcebook for rethinking our relationships to materials, land, and development, in all their crucial intersections.

Building materials --- Construction --- Research --- Environmental aspects --- Matériaux --- Recherche --- Aspect de l'environnement --- 691 --- Bouwmaterialen (architectuur) --- Materialen (design) --- Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Architectuur; materialen --- Duurzame ; ecologische ; constructietechnieken --- Assemble ; Collectief rond architectuur, kunst en design --- Voetafdrukken ; energiegebruik ; energieketens --- Bouwmaterialen

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Alternative homes --- Duurzame woningen --- Ecohomes --- Ecological houses --- Ecologische huizen --- Ecologische woningen --- Environmental homes --- Green homes (Green technology) --- Habitations durables --- Habitations passives --- Habitations écologiques --- Low impact houses --- Maisons durables --- Maisons passives --- Maisons vertes --- Maisons écologiques --- Sustainable houses --- Sustainable buildings --- Sustainable architecture --- Constructions durables --- Architecture durable --- Designs and plans --- Dessins et plans --- 728.3 --- 72:574 --- 72.039 --- Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Duurzame woningbouw --- Eensgezinswoningen --- Energiebesparende constructies --- Architectuur en milieu --- Bouweconomie --- 72.02 --- duurzaam wonen --- duurzaam bouwen --- duurzame architectuur --- woningen --- Woningbouw ; eengezinshuizen --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 --- Ecologie appliquée à l'habitat --- Maison individuelle --- Maisons écologiques --- Design and construction --- Pictorial works --- Ecologie appliquée --- Designs and plans.

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Si l'architecture verte a été marginale, elle est devenue indispensable et ce nouveau volume nous montre où, comment et pourquoi. Avec panneaux solaires et double-vitrage à la rescousse, la facture d'énergie diminue ! Comme toujours avec les livres de la série Architecture Now !, vous découvrirez les toutes dernières réalisations de "vedettes" comme Peter Zumthor et Bernard Tschumi, et vous pourrez vous mettre à la page en suivant la nouvelle génération d'architectes de la Corée au Vietnam, de Los Angeles à Berlin. Ce nouveau titre vous donne à découvrir des projets qui font des étincelles. comme le tunnel de pots de fleur d'Olafur Eliasson ou l'usine de valorisation énergétique de déchets coiffée d'une piste de ski, signée BIG. Ceci n'est pas un livre d'architecture ordinaire, mais un panorama actuel irrévérencieux d'une problématique qui nous concerne tous : la manière de sauver la planète et de construire un avenir plus vert. Oubliez catégories et certitudes, découvrez l'aspect ludique du durable !

Sustainable architecture --- Sustainable buildings --- Architecture --- Architecture durable --- Constructions durables --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects --- Conception et construction --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Développement durable --- Ecologie appliquée --- Environnement --- Espace (architecture) --- Architecture et climat --- aspect environnemental --- 72.039 --- 72:574 --- Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Duurzame architectuur ; 21ste eeuw --- Ecologisch bouwen en wonen --- Energiebesparende constructies --- Bouweconomie --- 504.062 --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- 504.062 Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Aspect environnemental --- Architecture et climat. --- Aspect environnemental.

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Landscape architecture --- Architecture du paysage --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- 63 --- Voedsel --- Voedingsindustrie --- 711.4 --- 504 --- 72:574 --- Landschappen ; milieu ; architectuur ; agricultuur ; 21ste eeuw --- Landbouw ; agrarische ; alternatieve --- Landbouwproduktie ; nieuwe technologieën --- Landbouw --- Stedenbouw --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Architectuur en ecologie --- 574 --- 712 --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Landschapsarchitectuur

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XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design.Our thesis is therefore both global and performative in scope. We need an architecture that is more than just a constellation of bio-picturesque images, digitally generated surface effects, and conventional materials. We seek a holistic architecture that uses the best techniques to connect directly with existing natural systems while creating a renewed ecology that can sustain itself well into the future. Along these lines, many of the projects featured in this book simply abandon the old tropes and construction processes of the past by creating numerous green alternatives that proliferate along unexpected pathways.

Sustainable architecture --- Architecture --- 72:574 --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Environmental aspects --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Sustainable architecture. --- Art --- Architecture durable --- Environmental aspects. --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Sustainable design