Groundscapes

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Architecture

ISBN: 9788425219634
English/Spanish edition
Editorial Gustavo Gili
Softcover, 206 pages
15 x 21 cm
January 2006
€28,37 (excl. VAT)

Groundscapes

The rediscovery of the ground in contemporary architecture

Ilka & Andreas Ruby

Series: Land & Scape

Groundscapes explores the 'comeback' of the idea of the ground onto the scene of contemporary architecture. With the decline of heroic modernism in the late 1960s a new generation of architects eager to discover this forbidden land initiated a reterritorialization of architecture which continues today. As a consequence, we can understand built space and ground space no longer as opposites but as equal elements of the architectural body.

Ilka Ruby is an architect and Andreas Ruby is an architectural critic and theorist. Since founding their office textbild in 2001 they have been committed to a cultural engineering of the discourse on contemporary architecture, writing texts, designing books, curating exhibitions, consulting architects and organizing architectural symposia for a wide array of cultural and corporate clients.