Three Cultural Ecologies
David Leatherbarrow author Richard Wesley author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:21st Aug '17
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Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and cultural conditions as reciprocal and complementary. A basic premise of this book’s arguments is that cultural patterns cannot be adequately conceptualized in the terms that typically define ecology today. Instead, studies based on the natural sciences must be complemented by descriptions and interpretations of historical narratives, cultural norms, and individual expressions. Previously unpublished images and new interpretations will allow readers to rediscover works they thought they knew; Villa Savoye, Taliesin, La Tourette, and Ocatilla; as well as projects that are less well known: by Wright, the House on the Mesa and the City Residential Plan, and by Le Corbusier, the Immeuble-villas and Ilôt Insalubre projects. More broadly, this study of cultural ecology at three scales – domestic, monastic, and urban – reconsiders the history of modern architecture. The conditions brought about by societal and technological modernization and confronted by modern architecture have not disappeared in our time, but have intensified, making the task of imagining how some measure of equilibrium between culture and ecology might be achieved even more pressing.
'Three Cultural Ecologies takes obvious examples of twentieth-century architecture and shows them anew. Setting the Villa Savoye and Taliesin in their unexamined ‘natural’ environment renews our sense of those all-too-familiar buildings and causes us to consider afresh the entire ecological context of modern architecture.' - Joseph Rykwert CBE, Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Three Cultural Ecologies presents a cultural and ecological re-examination of modern architecture at three scales—the domestic, the monastic and the urban—and thereby imparts lessons of far-reaching importance. The authors’ insightful analyses of the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier reveals that these architects invariably deployed their innovative modern forms in the service of achieving the ancient goal of a cultural-ecological balance between building and place, and reminds us that the most "sustainable" buildings are those in which people want to live." - Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
'Three Cultural Ecologies takes obvious examples of twentieth-century architecture and shows them anew. Setting the Villa Savoye and Taliesin in their unexamined ‘natural’ environment renews our sense of those all-too-familiar buildings and causes us to consider afresh the entire ecological context of modern architecture.' - Joseph Rykwert CBE, Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Three Cultural Ecologies presents a cultural and ecological re-examination of modern architecture at three scales—the domestic, the monastic and the urban—and thereby imparts lessons of far-reaching importance. The authors’ insightful analyses of the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier reveals that these architects invariably deployed their innovative modern forms in the service of achieving the ancient goal of a cultural-ecological balance between building and place, and reminds us that the most "sustainable" buildings are those in which people want to live." - Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
ISBN: 9781472435538
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 590g
226 pages