Botanical Architecture
Plants, Buildings and Us
Seiten
2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-927-2 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-927-2 (ISBN)
A provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. While a tree creates its own structure, we generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences.
Looking closely at how elements of plants – seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers and canopies – relate to buildings, this book asks what might be required to design with plants and become more attuned to vegetal life in our structures. It also proposes that we build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. While a tree creates its own structure, we generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences.
Looking closely at how elements of plants – seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers and canopies – relate to buildings, this book asks what might be required to design with plants and become more attuned to vegetal life in our structures. It also proposes that we build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
Paul Dobraszczyk is an architectural writer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. His books include Future Cities (2019) and Animal Architecture (2023), both published by Reaktion Books, as well as Architecture and Anarchism (2021).
Introduction: Vegetal Architecture
1 Seeds
2 Roots
3 Trunks
4 Branches
5 Leaves
6 Flowers
7 Canopies
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 109 illustrations, 36 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-927-4 / 1789149274 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-927-2 / 9781789149272 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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