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James Graham with Caitlin Blanchfield, Alissa Anderson, Jordan Carver, and Jacob Moore (eds.)

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our conception of what architecture is and does.

Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interfaces between resiliency, sustainability and eco-technology? New approaches to understanding climate in architecture based on research as well as the work of leading practitioners make this forward-thinking book invaluable.

The essays, notes, projects and conversations are grouped in chapters on Earths, Political Ecologies, Corporealities and Enclosures, accompanied by images, illustrations and sketches. The publication is a project of The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our conception of what architecture is and does.

Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interfaces between resiliency, sustainability and eco-technology? New approaches to understanding climate in architecture based on research as well as the work of leading practitioners make this forward-thinking book invaluable.

The essays, notes, projects and conversations are grouped in chapters on Earths, Political Ecologies, Corporealities and Enclosures, accompanied by images, illustrations and sketches. The publication is a project of The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Edited by James Graham with Caitlin Blanchfield, Alissa Anderson, Jordan Carver, and Jacob Moore, The Avery Review, in collaboration with Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and Columbia University GSAPP

Design: Neil Donnelly, Sean Yendrys

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

384 pages, 246 illustrations

paperback

2016, 978-3-03778-494-5
, English
Environmental Issues Architectural Research Urban Development
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James D. Graham

James Graham is the Director of Publications at Columbia GSAPP, where he is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor. He directs the Columbia Books on Architecture and the City imprint, for which he has edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (2016) and 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory (2015). In 2014, he founded the Avery Review, a digital periodical of critical essays on architecture at www.averyreview.com. His own scholarly work has been published in Grey Room, AA Files, Manifest and JSAH, among other journals.
James is currently completing his Ph.D. at Columbia GSAPP. His dissertation, titled The Psychotechnical Architect: Perception, Vocation, and the Laboratory Cultures of Modernity 1914–1945, examines the influences of applied psychology on architectural pedagogy and practice in Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. He also has degrees in architecture from MIT and the University of Virginia, and is a registered architect.

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