02727oam 2200457 450 991082654260332120240112111218.09781638409144electronic book1638409145electronic book9781948765398print194876539Xprint(CKB)4100000011816885(MiAaPQ)EBC6526567(Au-PeEL)EBL6526567(OCoLC)1244631145(EXLCZ)99410000001181688520210901h20212021 uy 0engurcn#|||a|a||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnless the Seagram Building construction ecology /Kiel MoeNew York, NY :Actar Publishers,2021.©2021.1 online resource (302 pages) illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color)Print version: 9781948765398 Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Prologue: Unless -- Introduction: The Terrestrial Life of Large Urban Spaces -- Framework: The Architecture of Unequal Exchange -- Framework: Construction Ecology -- Technomass and Technofossils -- Dies, Dyes and Dies -- Transparency: Literal and Terrestrial -- Getting Stone -- Conclusion: Gaia is in the Details -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations.Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A “beautiful” building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Unless architects begin to describe buildings as terrestrial events and artifacts, architects will—to our collective and professional peril—continue to operate outside the key environmental dynamics and key political processes of this century.Seagram Building construction ecologyArchitectureEnvironmental aspectsArchitectureEnvironmental aspects.720.47Moe Kiel1705869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826542603321Unless4092916UNINA