AD 223 The New Pastoralism: Landscape into Architecture

Description

The New Pastoralism is an exploration of a romantic ‘green’ and technological architecture that heals the traditional cut between the city dweller and nature. New, gently engaging architectures are arising that employ biomimetics, hydroponics, cybernetic feedback systems, micro ecologies and traditional construction methods with natural materials and vertical landscapes. These are used to create small, subtle, alive spaces that help remind us of our humanity. These soft constructions fulfil a hard-wired human desire to be connected to and delighted by nature. Unlike our ancestors’ romantic love of the dramatic power of landscape, these spaces offer a more gentle and artificially tamed nature of ‘pastoral’ delight. For centuries, Western culture looked to landscape and the pastoral in particular as a setting for the escapist desires to reconnect with the land and elements. More recently we looked to inner-city underbellies for the same romantic freedoms and wilderness. But these exotic desires are now evolving into more distilled and gentler experiences. The use of the skies, planting, water, wildlife and the seasons is becoming subtly incorporated into building layouts and onto building surfaces to offer a subtle new interface with our primordial desire to reconnect with nature

CONTENTS

• EditorIal / Helen Castle
• About the GUEST-EDITOR / Mark Titman
• Spotlight / Visual highlights of the issue
• Introduction. Dualism is Dead; Long Live the Pastoral / Mark Titman
• Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral Vision / Colin Harrison
• The Golden Age: Between Wilderness and Utopia / Dominic Shepherd
• ‘You Can Touch But Do Not Read’: The ‘Future-Rustic’ Work of Kathryn Findlay / Mark Titman
• The Land of Scattered Seeds / John Puttick
• Wild City: MVRDV – Weaving Nature and the Urban / Marta Pozo Gil
• Surviving Versus Living: Nature and Nurture / May Leung
• Origin of Species / Michael Sorkin
• 68 Quit the Grey Limbo and Return to Paradise / Matthew Cannon and Mascia Gianvanni
• Brave New Now / Liam Young
• Dirty Futures: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Nature / Geoff Ward
• The Persistence of the Pastoral / Nic Clear
• Landscape Utopianism: Information, Ecology and Generative Pastoralism / Gregory Marinic
• Digital Cottage Industries / Mike Aling
• iPastoral / Mark Morris
• Exist-Stencil / Jeffrey James
• Open Fields: The Next Rural Design Revolution / Alastair Parvin
• Next-Door Instructions / François Roche
• Pastoral Manoeuvres: Ecologies of City, Nature and Practice / Duncan Berntsen
• counterpoint. Et in Arcadia ego, Et in Arcadia est / Kevin Rhowbotham
• Contributors

144 pages / 21 x 27,5 cm / English