The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to

The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come

In The Air from Other Planets, SeanÂ LallyÂ introduces the readerÂ to an architecture produced by designing the energy withinÂ our environment ( electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, andÂ chemical ). This architecture exchanges the walls and shells weÂ have assumed to be the only type of attainable architectureÂ for a range of material energies that develops its own shapes,Â aesthetics, organizational systems, and social experiences.Â The book is a story in which energy emerges as more than whatÂ fills the interior of a building or reflects off its outer walls.Â Instead, energy becomes its own enterprise for design innovation:Â it becomes the architecture itself.
The Air from Other Planets is a book nostalgic for the future,Â rooted in the belief that the architect's greatest attributes lie notÂ only in harnessing the latest technologies and advancements inÂ building materials, but also in exercising our imaginations throughÂ speculation and the projections of worlds and environments yetÂ to exist. The book shows us that some of our greatest discoveriesÂ come not from seeking something new but from re-examiningÂ what we already have around us.
Country USA
Brand Lars Muller Publishers
Manufacturer Lars Müller Publishers
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 100
ReleaseDate 2013-12-13
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884892539905
EANs 9783037783931

The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come