Design Ecologies

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568987835
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 256 pages
15,2 x 22,9 cm
colour/black & white
December 2009
€26,60 (excl. VAT)

Design Ecologies

Essays on the Nature of Design

Lisa Tilder, Beth Blostein

Design Ecologies is a ground-breaking collection of never-before-published essays and case studies by today’s most innovative designers and critics. Their design strategies – social, material and biological – run the gamut from the intuitive to the highly technological. One essay likens window-unit air conditioners in New York City to weeds in order to spearhead the development of potential design solutions. Latz + Partner's Landscape Park integrates vegetation and industry in an urban park built amongst the monumental ruins of a former steelworks in Duisburg Nord, Germany. The engineering firm Arup presents its 33-square-mile masterplan for Dongtan Eco City, an energy-independent city that China hopes will house half a million people by 2050. An essay by designer Bruce Mau leads off a stellar list of emerging designers, including Jane Amidon, Blaine Brownell, David Gissen, Gross.Max, Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, R&Sie(n), Studio 804 and WORKac.