Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037782234
• ISBN13: 9783037782231
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Lars Müller
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 1.8" x 6.8"