Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments

by David Gissen

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the direct result of human habitation, these "subnatural forces" are nothing new. In fact, our ability to manage these forces has long defined the limits of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568987773
• ISBN13: 9781568987774
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.1"