The Future of the Skyscraper - Couverture souple

 
9781938922787: The Future of the Skyscraper
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1938922786 ISBN 13 : 9781938922787
Editeur : Distributed Art Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

The Future of the Skyscraper, 9781938922787

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless - when they pierce the shared skies - intensely public. In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures that might shape future towers, presenting a choose-your-own-adventure of potential futures for architecture, some of them terrifying in their nearness. We peer up at skyscrapers old and new, visit their highest floors, turn them this way and that to see them clearly through the psychology (Tom Vanderbilt) and physiology (Emily Badger) of living and working on high, and through the lens of policy in the low-rise counterexample of Washington, DC (Matthew Yglesias). Diana Lind tests the idea of tall against the more sprawling needs of industry. Will Self looks back in literature, film and recent urban history to write towards a new understanding of the tower in the popular imagination. Dickson Despommier shares a comprehensive vision of an ecological future, in which towers, perhaps supertalls, would necessarily play a crucial role.

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Éditeur
Distributed Art Publishers
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1938922786
ISBN 13 
9781938922787
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Éditeur
Nobel Philip
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible