ARQ 108 | Vegetation / Vegetación (August 2021)
Libre acceso/Open Access
Francisco Díaz (ed.); several authors
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20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 / ISSN (online): 0717-6996
“Plants,” for Emanuele Coccia, “demonstrate that living beings produce the space in which they live rather than being forced to adapt to it.” Plants would be the first architects. In fact, besides making their own space, they also produce and enable the other life that occupies it. Thus, the instrumentalization of vegetation would be nothing else than an example of the structural limitations of purely human thought. Luckily, there are already ideas, proposals, and discourses in architecture that go beyond the anthropocentric view on vegetation. These are written, thought, designed, or built architectures that “learn from” and “think with” vegetation. Approaches and contacts between architecture and vegetation that this issue seeks to highlight. Thinking with vegetation allows us to understand that the maintenance of life on this planet cannot be defined unilaterally.
With contributions by: Maya Lin, Pelin Tan, Andrea Bagnato, Cooking Sections, Sylvia Lavin, Pía Montealegre, Max Núñez, Daniel Talesnik, Fernando Portal, Home-Office, Al Borde, Ophélia Mantz, Julian Raxworthy, Castelló, Cortellaro, Rahola, Moore, Croxatto, Musalem, Louisa King, Tamsin Salehian, Alejandra Figueroa, Paloma Infante.
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Paperback
20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 / ISSN (online): 0717-6996
“Plants,” for Emanuele Coccia, “demonstrate that living beings produce the space in which they live rather than being forced to adapt to it.” Plants would be the first architects. In fact, besides making their own space, they also produce and enable the other life that occupies it. Thus, the instrumentalization of vegetation would be nothing else than an example of the structural limitations of purely human thought. Luckily, there are already ideas, proposals, and discourses in architecture that go beyond the anthropocentric view on vegetation. These are written, thought, designed, or built architectures that “learn from” and “think with” vegetation. Approaches and contacts between architecture and vegetation that this issue seeks to highlight. Thinking with vegetation allows us to understand that the maintenance of life on this planet cannot be defined unilaterally.
With contributions by: Maya Lin, Pelin Tan, Andrea Bagnato, Cooking Sections, Sylvia Lavin, Pía Montealegre, Max Núñez, Daniel Talesnik, Fernando Portal, Home-Office, Al Borde, Ophélia Mantz, Julian Raxworthy, Castelló, Cortellaro, Rahola, Moore, Croxatto, Musalem, Louisa King, Tamsin Salehian, Alejandra Figueroa, Paloma Infante.