
- 234 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.
Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined, from the anomalous city designs of Francesco de Marchi in the sixteenth century to Le Corbusier's near eradication of context in his Plan Voisin in the twentieth century to the more recent contextualist movements. Extensively illustrated with 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics considers how attention to site might create a generative language for architecture today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword by Catherine Ingraham
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Bubbles Burst
- 1 Niche Tactics
- 2 The Thirteenth Villa
- 3 The Deformations of Francesco de Marchi
- 4 An Ecological Approach to the Picturesque
- 5 The Donkey’s Way: Alternate Paths for Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin
- 6 All Dressed Up and Some Place To Go
- 7 Santa Maria Deformata: The Predicament of Precedent
- 8 Kuleshov Effects
- 9 Duck Jokes
- 10 Fugly
- 11 Hopeful Monsters
- 12 Coda
- Bibliography
- Index