Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design by Lisa TilderDesign Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design by Lisa Tilder
Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design by Lisa Tilder
Publication Date: December 14, 2005
Contemporary architects are under increasing pressure to offer a sustainable future. But with all the focus on green building there has been little investigation into the meaningful connections between architectural design ecological systems and environmentalism. A new generation of architects landscape architects designers and engineers aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. Design in this sense is a larger concept having to do as much with politics and ethics as with aesthetics and technology. This recasting of the green movement for the twenty-first century transforms design into a positive agent balancing societal values with environmental needs. 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 thirty-three-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.
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