Ecology and the Architectural Imagination [Hardcover]

By including ecological concerns in the design process from the outset, architecture can enhance life. Author Brook Muller understands how a designers predispositions and poetic judgement in dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems impact the greenness of built outcomes. Ecology and the Architectural Imagination offers a series of speculations on architectural possibility when ecology is embedded from conceptual phases onward, how notions of function and structure of ecosystems can inspire ideas of architectural space making and order, and how the architects role and contribution can shift through this engagement. As an ecological architect working in increasingly dense urban environments, you can create diverse spaces of inhabitation and connect project scale living systems with those at the neighborhood and region scales. Equipped with ecological literacy, critical thinking and collaboration skills, you are empowered to play important roles in the remaking of our cities.

Preface  Introduction  Part 1: Ecological Architectures Within a Broader Context  1. Intensification  2. Commons  3. Ecosystem Models  Part 2: Conceptual (Eco)Architectural Constructs  4. Metaphor and Respatialization  5. Bodies  6. Furnishings  7. Landscapes and Machines  Part 3: EcoArchitectural Strategies and Orders  8. Networks  9. Assembling Context  10. Continuity of Singularities  11. Watermark  Epilogue: Narrating Architectural Futures  Bibliography  Index

Author Brook Muller understands that your design tendencies influence your working methods and impact the greeness of your buildings. This book explains design strategies and emphasizes the imporlcÂ