Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature<\/i><\/b> explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect’s modes of seeing and techniques of representation. This book presents research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio ‘Architecture of Nature\/ Nature of Architecture’, created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Architecture of Nature<\/b><\/i> departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The history of the earth is explored through the architect’s mode of seeing and techniques of representation.
Expanding Boundaries: Architecture, Nature, Science, Representation 7
\nDiana Agrest
\nWork 17
\nLiquid Tectonics, Phantom Surge, Subduction and Transformations of the Mantle Rock, Fire and Ice, Fire and Water, Oblique Tectonics, Moving lates and Stationary Hotspots, Life, Death, and Regeneration of Coral Reefs
\nConstructions of Nature: Representation as Production
\nPeter Galison and Caroline A. Jones interviewed by Diana Agrest 65
\nWork 81
\nInvisible Clouds: Nuclear Testing and Radioactive Spaces, A Dissolving Landscape, Traces of Choreography of Fractures, Residual Surface, Between Erosion and Sedimentation: Water Flow and Land Mass, Between Two Waters: Disaster as Opportunity, Growth in Anoxic Conditions
\nSea Cliffs and the Sublime: A Conversation 125
\nGraham D. Burnett interviewed by Diana Agrest
\nWork 133
\nSalt Domes, Chronicle of Eroding Forces, An Aeolian Sense: Configuring Power of an Invisible Force Field, Water Motion in a Topographical Vessel, Impact and Flow, Manipulated Life Cycles, Frozen Flow, Transformative Materiality, [Perma]Frost Landscape, Subterranean Channels
\nBasin and Range: Geologic Time 193
\nJohn McPhee
\nWork 201
\nPermafrost: Interactions and Transformations of States of Matter, Salt of the Earth, Rock, Fire, and Water: Interactions in Constant Motion, Algae as Habitat, Sequoia as Gestalt, Clouds as Transformational Tools, Cyclical Migration, Colliding Matters, Tornadogenesis and Topography
\nThe Return of the Repressed: Nature 257
\nDiana Agrest
\nWork Appendix 269
\nAuthor and Contributor Bios 278
\nAcknowledgments 279<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7212,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7211","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-diana-agrest","8":"author-by-author-john-angus-mcphee","9":"publisher-oro-editions","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n