Organization space : landscapes, highways, and houses in America / Keller Easterling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easterling, Keller, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts--they are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change, to mistakes, anomalies, and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these irregularities opportunistically, she offers architects working within the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering space.By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems, highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable.

Contents:

pt. 1. Terrestrial networks

Subtraction inversion remote: the Appalachian Trail

Framework: terra incognita and environment

Partition: watershed and wayside

Sites

pt. 2. Differential highways

Redundancy and interstice: transcontinental and intercity networks

Switch: terminal, interchange, vehicle

Parallel networks: roadsides

pt. 3. Subdivision products

Function and template: war-town subdivision science

Function: New Deal demonstration projects

Summation: subdivision merchandising

Sites.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27210-5

1-4237-4204-4

OCLC:

62416517