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Book presentation: Landform Building

Book presentation: Landform Building

History, Theory & Criticism

30/04/2011

12:30


Landform Building. Architecture’s new terrain

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you can walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-consideration of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Some of today's most innovative buildings no longer occupy a given site but instead, construct the site itself.

The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as a study of the new design techniques, formal strategies, and technical problems that are emerging in the discipline.

Stan Allen will present his new book Landform Building along with the participation of Iñaki Ábalos, Michael Jakob, Josep Lluís Mateo, and Lars Müller, on Saturday April 30th at 12:30 pm in the Auditorium of La Pedrera. The event, organized by the Barcelona Institute of Architecture - BIArch, offers a unique opportunity for participants to analyze and discuss the relationship between landscape and architecture.

Admittance is free, but seating capacity is limited. Please RSVP through our website or our Facebook page. For more information contact info@biarch.eu.
 
 ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:

Stan Allen, co-editor of Landform Building
Architect.  Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University.  Principal of Stan Allen Architects (SAA) in New York. Visiting professor and member of the BIArch Advisory Council.

Iñaki Ábalos
Dr. Architect. Member of the BIArch Board of Directors, Kenzo Tange Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture. Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Principal of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos, Madrid

Michael Jakob
Historian of Landscape. Ph.D. in literature. Professor of History and Theory of Landscape at the Institute of Architecture of the University of Geneva (IAUG) and at Centre de Recherche de l’Imaginaire (CRI), Grenoble. Founder and director of the literary journal COMPAR(A)ISON.

Josep Lluís Mateo
Dr. Architect. Chair of Architecture and Design at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich. Principal of Mateo Arquitectura.

Lars Müller
Publisher, designer and professor. Founder and director of Lars Müller Publishers in Baden (Switzerland). Partner since 1996 of the interdisciplinary research group Integral Concept.