Research Catalog

Title

Empire, state & building / Kiel Moe.

Author

Moe, Kiel

Publication

• New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

264 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color); 23 cm

Summary

This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This book plots the material history and geography for one plot of land in Manhattan: the parcel of land under the Empire State Building over the past two hundred years. Through rich illustrations, it tracks all the building material that have passed through this parcel or remain it in geographic and ecological dynamics: spatially (in terms of their geographic material footprints and industrial processes) and quantitatively (in terms of embodied energy, embodied carbon, and energy flow). In successive chapters, the book articulates the empire and states that are inherent to building, but remain unconsidered abstract and unknown by architects.

Alternative Title

Empire, state and building

Subject

• Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) > History
• Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire
• Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)
• Architecture > Environmental aspects > New York (State) > New York
• Architecture > Aspect de l'environnement > New York (État) > New York
• Architecture > Environmental aspects > New York (State)
• Architecture > Environmental aspects
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Development > History
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > Manhattan
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : The plot of this book -- Plotting the Empire State Building -- Empire -- State -- Building -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 1940291844
• 9781940291840

LCCN

2016949087

OCLC

• 952207682
• SCSB-11549956

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library