Natural architecture now : new projects from outside the boundaries of design / [edited by] Francesca Tatarella. - First [edition] - 222 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Guiliano Mauri --
Preface : Art, architecture, and nature: a new kind of environmental impact / Francesca Tatarella --
nArchitects --
Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid --
Heather & Ivan Morison --
Porky Hefer Design --
Patkau Architects --
Ants of the Prairie --
Yolanda Gutiérrez --
Strijdom van der Merwe --
Dout & Mike Starn --
Arne Quinze --
Studio Weave --
RAI Studio, Pouya Khazaeli Parsa --
Al Borde Arquitectos --
Marco Casagrande --
Roberto Conte --
Alfio Bonanno --
Patrick Dougherty --
Ueno Masao --
Daniel McCormick --
Rintala Eggertsson with Paolo Mestriner and Massimiliano Spadoni --
Legendre-Peron --
Ichi Ikeda --
Ball-Nogues Studio.

"This book is a follow-up to our steady seller Natural Architecture. Presenting all new work by twenty artists not featured in the first volume as well as new projects by a selection of artists discussed in the first edition, Natural Architecture Now will showcase extraordinary spaces and exceptional structures created using natural materials and manual labor. The works make direct reference to the world of nature in terms of their location, the materials used, and a minimum application of non-artisan techniques. These are beautiful structures that use the resources of place, the specific characteristics of the site, growth processes, and spontaneous and accidental phenomena to investigate our feelings about nature, while addressing ecology, landscape, and environment as belonging to art"--

9781616891404 (pbk.)

2013033941


Site-specific installations (Art)
Nature (Aesthetics)
Environment (Art)
Plants in art.
Art, Modern--21st century.

N6498.I56 / N38 2014

709.04/074