LEADER 02727oam 2200457 450 001 9910826542603321 005 20240112111218.0 010 $a9781638409144$belectronic book 010 $a1638409145$belectronic book 010 $z9781948765398$bprint 010 $z194876539X$bprint 035 $a(CKB)4100000011816885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6526567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6526567 035 $a(OCoLC)1244631145 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011816885 100 $a20210901h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||a|a|| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnless $ethe Seagram Building construction ecology /$fKiel Moe 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cActar Publishers,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) $cillustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781948765398 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aDissects 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. 517 3 $aSeagram Building construction ecology 606 $aArchitecture$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aArchitecture$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a720.47 700 $aMoe$b Kiel$01705869 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826542603321 996 $aUnless$94092916 997 $aUNINA