

Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia
Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia
This book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel histories of their intellectual positions toward environmental throughout time.
There have been many accounts on the history of ecology and others on the migration of ecological thought to design and architecture practice. Yet, the work of a focused and expanded history of ecological design is much needed. This book presents conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel histories of their intellectual positions toward environmental thought from the 19th century to today. To survey the formation of this field, the history of ecological design will be not be exclusively examined chronologically, but also in connected worldviews, each rendering evolving perceptions of nature, its relation to culture, and the occupation of the natural world by human and non-human subjects.
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Alan I W Frank House: The Modernist Masterwork by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer


All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948

Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

Architecture and Objects (Art After Nature)


Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories

Arthropods: New Design Futures

Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior

Atlas of Brutalist Architecture

Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect


Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines and Steel Mills

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Hannover Coal Mine

Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art


Cereal Drying Racks: Culture and Typology of Wood Buildings in Europe and East Asia
