Newscapes: Territories of Complexity

Author: Paola Gregory
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: complexity, territories, newscapes
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 3764367369
ISBN-13: 9783764367367

Book Description:

Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical designs and the realization.

Author Paola Gregory examines this interplay between buildings and landscapes present in today’s architecture scene, illustrating her analysis with exciting examples including the ecological landscapes of James Wines and Greg Lynn, the virtual environments of Marcos Novak and Nox, buildings by Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito which actively incorporate passers-by and surrounding by means of new media.


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