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Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Contributors:

By (Author) Kiel Moe

ISBN:

9781948765398

Publisher:

Actar Publishers

Imprint:

Actar Publishers

Publication Date:

9th June 2021

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Architectural structure and design
Building construction and materials
Construction and heavy industry

Dewey:

720.47

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

316

Dimensions:

Width 170mm, Height 220mm

Description

Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.

In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A "beautiful" building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework.

Reviews

"Through more literal descriptions of architecture, architects, designers, researchers, and historians can come to see the terrestrial basis of building. Further, by refraining from abstracting those myriad processes, they can start to reason and imagine designs that better engage our terrestrial realities." --Kiel Moe, Metropolis Magazine

Author Bio

Kiel Kenneth Moe is a registered practicing American architect. Moe has taught architecture and energy at University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, Northeastern University and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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