XXL-XS: New Directions on Ecological Design
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940291879 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was featured in numerous articles, including “The 100 People Who Are Changing America,” in Rolling Stone, “The Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To,” in Wired.Mike Silver, Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Buffalo, pursues pioneering research in the fields of sustainable design, digital mapping, green composites manufacturing, high-throughput computing, and proprietary software development. About the Author Mitchell Joachim is an architect and urban designer, Co-Founder of the nonprofit design research group Terreform ONE, and Associate Professor
He was featured in numerous articles, including “The 100 People Who Are Changing America,” in Rolling Stone, “The Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To,” in Wired.Mike Silver, Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Buffalo, pursues pioneering research in the fields of sustainable design, digital mapping,
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. XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Architecture must not only be functionally green, but its formal, conceptual and physical properties also need to constitute a novel and integrated living material system, one that can flourish within the larger world around it. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design.Our thesis is therefore both global and performative in scope. 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. 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. From terr