The New Pastoralism
Landscape into Architecture AD
Architectural Design
1. Auflage April 2013
144 Seiten, Softcover
Praktikerbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book's numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. Images are provided with text as annotation. The prominent featured architects will include: Michael Sorkin, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ken Yeang, Kathryn Findlay and Mos Architecture. The other contributors will show small or medium sized built projects they have worked on. All contributors will showcase a building, structure or surface as either drawn proposal or built construction.
The New Pastoralism is an exploration of a romantic 'green' and technological architecture that heals the traditional cut between the city dweller and nature. New, gently engaging architectures are arising that employ biomimetics, hydroponics, cybernetic feedback systems, micro ecologies and traditional construction methods with natural materials and vertical landscapes. These are used to create small, subtle, alive spaces that help remind us of our humanity. These soft constructions fulfil a hard-wired human desire to be connected to and delighted by nature. Unlike our ancestors' romantic love of the dramatic power of landscape, these spaces offer a more gentle and artificially tamed nature of 'pastoral' delight. For centuries, Western culture looked to landscape and the pastoral in particular as a setting for the escapist desires to reconnect with the land and elements. More recently we looked to inner-city underbellies for the same romantic freedoms and wilderness. But these exotic desires are now evolving into more distilled and gentler experiences. The use of the skies, planting, water, wildlife and the seasons is becoming subtly incorporated into building layouts and onto building surfaces to offer a subtle new interface with our primordial desire to reconnect with nature
Helen Castle
About the GUEST-EDITOR 6
Mark Titman
Spotlight 8
Visual highlights of the issue
Introduction 14
Dualism is Dead; Long Live the Pastoral
Mark Titman
Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral Vision 20
Colin Harrison
The Golden Age: Between Wilderness and Utopia 26
Dominic Shepherd
'You Can Touch But Do Not Read': The 'Future-Rustic' Work of Kathryn Findlay 32
Mark Titman
The Land of Scattered Seeds 40
John Puttick
Wild City: MVRDV - Weaving Nature and the Urban 48
Marta Pozo Gil
Surviving Versus Living: Nature and Nurture 56
May Leung
Origin of Species 60
Michael Sorkin
68 Quit the Grey Limbo and Return to Paradise68
Matthew Cannon and Mascia Gianvanni
Brave New Now 74
Liam Young
Dirty Futures: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Nature 82
Geoff Ward
The Persistence of the Pastoral 86
Nic Clear
Landscape Utopianism: Information, Ecology and Generative Pastoralism 94
Gregory Marinic
Digital Cottage Industries 100
Mike Aling
iPastoral 106
Mark Morris
Exist-Stencil 112
Jeffrey James
Open Fields: The Next Rural Design Revolution 118
Alastair Parvin
Next-Door Instructions 126
François Roche
Pastoral Manoeuvres: Ecologies of City, Nature and Practice 134
Duncan Berntsen
138 counterpoint 138
Et in Arcadia ego
Et in Arcadia est
Kevin Rhowbotham
Contributors 142
