Landscape futures:Instruments, devices and architectural inventions
By: Manaugh, Geoff
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Publisher: Navada Navada Museum of Art 2013Description: 306 Pages | Binding - Paperback |.ISBN: 978-84-15391-14-2.Subject(s): LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (AR-LA)DDC classification: 712 Summary: Landscape Futures explores how landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. It travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales from the handheld to the inhabitable reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a roomsized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fiction as a means of exploring alternative futures: landscape futures, terrestrial scenarios for which we have no other guide.
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Landscape Futures explores how landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. It travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales from the handheld to the inhabitable reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a roomsized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fiction as a means of exploring alternative futures: landscape futures, terrestrial scenarios for which we have no other guide.
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