Full Product Details
Author: Ryan Ludwig (University of Cincinnati, School of Architecture and Interior Design, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9780367232696
ISBN 10: 0367232693
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 22 December 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
Beyond Sustainable presents a tour d'horizon of the prevailing conceptualizations of our planet's ecology through a clear, systematic and comprehensive summary of the relevant sources. Moreover, the author projects an agenda for contemporary architecture that questions the very foundations of current practice - and so begins to shed light on matters that are still elusive, even to open eyes and open minds. -Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch, Architects Beyond Sustainable situates, with great acuity, architecture's current position in relation to elemental shifts in earth systems. Ludwig probes theories and histories of technology, economics, space and humanism to articulate how we might identify architecture and ourselves as integral, dynamic, parts of a live-in-the-world ecology. The book is succinct yet rich and Ludwig is an excellent writer, both principled and persuasive. -Catherine Ingraham, Ph.D. Author of Architecture the Burdens of Linearity and Architecture, Animal, Human Ryan Ludwig's book is an important addition to the literature on physicalizing phenomenology in architecture. With the environmental crisis as the governing challenge for all architectural production it is important to not succumb to solutions that simply mask but perpetuate past practices. More productively there is an opportunity to reimagine the relationship between body, shelter and ecosystem in light of the crisis. The book lays out an argument that architecture has played a role in facilitating bio-physical entanglements and with imagination and ingenuity can do so in the future. -Omar Khan, Head, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Beyond Sustainable presents a tour d'horizon of the prevailing conceptualizations of our planet's ecology through a clear, systematic and comprehensive summary of the relevant sources. Moreover, the author projects an agenda for contemporary architecture that questions the very foundations of current practice - and so begins to shed light on matters that are still elusive, even to open eyes and open minds. -Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch, Architects Beyond Sustainable situates, with great acuity, architecture's current position in relation to elemental shifts in earth systems. Ludwig probes theories and histories of technology, economics, space and humanism to articulate how we might identify architecture and ourselves as integral, dynamic, parts of a live-in-the-world ecology. The book is succinct yet rich and Ludwig is an excellent writer, both principled and persuasive. -Catherine Ingraham, Ph.D. Author of Architecture the Burdens of Linearity and Architecture, Animal, Human Ryan Ludwig's book is an important addition to the literature on physicalizing phenomenology in architecture. With the environmental crisis as the governing challenge for all architectural production it is important to not succumb to solutions that simply mask but perpetuate past practices. More productively there is an opportunity to reimagine the relationship between body, shelter and ecosystem in light of the crisis. The book lays out an argument that architecture has played a role in facilitating bio-physical entanglements and with imagination and ingenuity can do so in the future. -Omar Khan, Head, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Author Information
Ryan Ludwig is an architect and educator teaching at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design, in the college of Design Architecture Art and Planning. He is the founding principal of Ludwig-ArchOffice (L-AO), a design and research studio focused on inclusive and adaptable approaches to architectural design. He is a recipient of a Fall 2018 MacDowell Fellowship and Centrum Artist Residency; is a co-editor of the book The Function of Form; and has previously published essays in numerous online and print journals.
