Research Catalog

Title

Emerging ecologies : architecture and the rise of environmentalism : a field guide / [edited by] Carson Chan, Matthew Wagstaffe.

Publication

• New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chan, Carson, 1980-
• Wagstaffe, Matthew
• Lowry, Glenn D.
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 31 cm

Summary

During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive survey of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism looks at the role architects have played in defining our understanding of "nature" and the "environment," specifically during the rise of environmental discourse. The richly illustrated publication presents over 45 architectural contributions--from Eleanor Raymond and Mária Telkes' groundbreaking work on solar houses to Buckminster Fuller's world resource management system and the environmental symbolism of Emilio Ambasz--to explore the role designers played in both promoting ecological concerns and in outlining the very terms of this nascent field. Through an introductory essay by curator Carson Chan and brief texts on each of the featured projects, Emerging Ecologies documents the proximity between ecology, design and statecraft, allowing readers to take stock of historic milestones as architecture confronts today's climate emergencies.

Subject

• Architecture > Environmental aspects > Exhibitions
• Art and architecture > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 17, 2023-January 20, 2024.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction to a field guide / Carson Chan -- Plates with extended captions by Matthew Watstaffe -- Emilio Ambasz -- Ant Farm -- Phyllis Birkby -- Cambridge Seven Associates -- Serge Chermayeff -- Cosanti Foundation -- Carolyn Dry -- Eames Office and Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates -- Environmental Communications -- Howard T. Fisher -- Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Anna Halprin and Lawrence Halprin -- Wolf Hilbertz -- Ralph Knowles -- John C. Lilly with Margaret Howe Lovatt -- Ian McHarg -- Murphy & Mackey -- NASA, Gerard K. O'Neill -- Richard Neutra -- New Alchemy Institute -- Aladar Olgyay and Victor Olgyay -- Gaetano Pesce -- Michael Reynolds -- Glen Small -- Mária Telkes and Eleanor Raymond -- Eugene Tssui -- Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Sim Van der Ryn -- Warren County Citizens Concerned about PCB -- Malcolm Wells -- Beverly Willis -- James Wines/SITE -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Timeline.

Call Number

JQG 23-634

ISBN

• 9781633451544
• 1633451542

LCCN

2023935895

OCLC

1393180974

Title

Emerging ecologies : architecture and the rise of environmentalism : a field guide / [edited by] Carson Chan, Matthew Wagstaffe.

Publisher

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Chan, Carson, 1980- editor.

Wagstaffe, Matthew, editor.

Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 23-634