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OverviewBridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts-they are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor. Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change, to mistakes, anomalies, and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these irregularities opportunistically, she offers architects working within the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering space. By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems, highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Keller Easterling (Yale University)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780262550406ISBN 10: 0262550407 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 24 August 2001 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsIn its innovations of form, its depth of research, its acuteanalysis, and its enormous relevance, this is a remarkablework. Keller Easterling has written one of the most original worksabout the American environment I've ever read. Michael Sorkin, architect, Institute for Urbanism, Vienna In her book Easterling does not so much supply new design instruments as successfully reveal those forces and principles which have more impact on the spatial organization of our physical environment than the work of architects and urban planners. Her analysis of subdivision cries out to be applied to today's output of business parks and shopping malls. - Tom Leenders, Archis Author InformationKeller Easterling is Associate Professor, Yale University School of Architecture. She is the author of Organization Space (MIT Press, 1999). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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