GeoLogics - Vicente Guallart
Geography Information Architecture
KORTE INHOUD
The research presented in this book condenses the work carried out over the last fifteen years, oriented toward the development of architecture projects. Our practice encompasses multiple scales, from the territorial project, the creation and reform of cities, the design of neighbourhoods, landscape, the buildings, the homes, the objects that inhabit it and the informational relationship between them. ‘From bits to geography.’
This multiscale approach is prompted by a recognition of the need to think and create ecosystems in their entirety rather high-profile one-off actuations isolated from the city and the territory. A process oriented toward creating conditions of habitability in the territory more than constructing buildings. We are, then, more interested in the systemic character of the architecture than in its iconic character per se.
There would be no need for architecture if human beings were content to live in caves or in trees. Architecture is necessary to create conditions of habitability that are no...
This multiscale approach is prompted by a recognition of the need to think and create ecosystems in their entirety rather high-profile one-off actuations isolated from the city and the territory. A process oriented toward creating conditions of habitability in the territory more than constructing buildings. We are, then, more interested in the systemic character of the architecture than in its iconic character per se.
There would be no need for architecture if human beings were content to live in caves or in trees. Architecture is necessary to create conditions of habitability that are no...
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