EcoRedux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet (Architectural Design),Used

Product DescriptionThis issue of AD explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbagepacked metropolises and paraeconomies of nonrecyclable ewaste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth reemerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an illmanaged planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world's salvation, yet rather upraises as a psychospatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as EcoRedux', this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right; it recognises pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at first sight as sciencefictional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own realms and operations.Contributors include: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner (HWKN), Fabiola LpezDurn and Nikki Moore, Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley. Featured architects: Anna Pla Catal, Jonathan Enns, Eva FranchGilabert. Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One), Franois Roche (R&Sie(n)), Rafi Segal, Alexandros Tsamis and Eric Vergne.From the Back CoverThis issue of AD explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbagepacked metropolises and paraeconomies of nonrecyclable ewaste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth reemerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an illmanaged planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world's salvation, yet rather upraises as a psychospatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as EcoRedux', this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right; it recognises pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at first sight as sciencefictional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own realms and operations.Contributors include: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner (HWKN), Fabiola LpezDurn and Nikki Moore, Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley. Featured architects: Anna Pla Catal, Jonathan Enns, Eva FranchGilabert. Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One), Franois Roche (R&Sie(n)), Rafi Segal, Alexandros Tsamis and Eric Vergne.About the AuthorLydia Kallipoliti is a practising architect and a writer, currently teaching as an assistant professor adjunct at the Cooper Union school of architecture in New York. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in Greece, a SMArchS from MIT and an MA from Princeton University, and is completing her PhD at Princeton on recycling material experiments and the intersection of cybernetic and ecological theories in the postwar period.Her design work has received awards in several international architectural competitions, and has been exhibited at venues including the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Biennial Miami+ Beach, the Venice Biennale, the Byzantine Museum of Athens, the Biennale of Young Greek Architects, the 5th National Exhibition of Greek Architectural Work and the 'NonStandard Praxis' digital design conference. Her theoretical work has