Rachel Armstrong (UK University of Newcastle)

Broschiertes Buch

Experimental Architecture

Designing the Unknown

Beschreibung

Written by a pioneer in the field, this is the first book to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture. Ideal for students and researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based architectural research.

Autor

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University. Her work focuses on establishing the conditions for a "living" architecture that couples the computational properties of the natural world with building structures and infrastructures. She is Director and founder of the Experimental Architecture Group (EAG) whose work has been published, exhibited and performed at international biennales, and Coordinator for the Living Architecture project, which is an ongoing collaboration of experts from universities in the UK, Spain, Italy and Austria. She has written a number of academic books including: Liquid Life: On Non-Linear Materiality (2019); Soft Living Architecture: An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice (2018); Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship (2016); Vibrant Architecture: Matter as a CoDesigner of Living Structures (2015). Her fiction books include Invisible Ecologies (2019) and Origamy (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 167mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781138575257
• ISBN-10: 1138575259
• Artikelnr.: 57108478