Niche tactics : generative relationships between architecture and site / Caroline O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donnell, Caroline, author.

Contributor:

Ingraham, Catherine, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and biology.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

xx, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

Niche Tactics aligns the relationship between architecture and site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment. Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined, from the anomalous city designs of Francesco de Marchi in the sixteenth century to Le Corbusier's near eradication of context in his Plan Voisin in the twentieth century to the more recent contextualist movements. Extensively illustrated with 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics considers how attention to site might create a generative language for architecture today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Niche Tactics

Case Study: The 13th Villa

Case Study: The Deformations of Francesco de Marchi

An Ecological Approach to the Picturesque

Case Study: The Donkey's Way: Alternate Paths in Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin

All Dressed Up and Some Place to Go

Case Study: Santa Maria Deformata: The Predicament of Precedent

Kuleshov Effects

Duck Jokes

Fugly

Hopeful Monsters

Coda.

Notes:

Niche Tactics was originally published under the title: Niche Tactics: The Giraffe Model in the 101st ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings (2013): New Constellations New Ecologies, edited by Ila Berman and Ed Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138793118

1138793116

9781138793125

1138793124

OCLC:

892304836