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Revolutionizing landscape architecture Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies __Living Systems__ surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory,focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details and construction photographs. Descriptions of key processes and adaptive qualities provide an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration and erosion control. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten. * Important innovations

Who reads Living Systems: Innovative Materialien Und Technologien Für Die Landschaftsarchitektur?

Author

Liat Margolis, Alexander Robinson (auth.)

Publisher

Birkhäuser Basel

Published

2007

Language

DE

ISBN

9783764382285

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Stem