Ambiguous Territory
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Ambiguous Territory

Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural

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eBook - ePub

Ambiguous Territory

Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural

About this book

The writers and designers in this collection are among the most thoughtful architects, artists, landscape architects, and theorists working today. The editors organized these essays and works of art and design around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into a larger articulation of what an ambiguous territory might be and how it operates.

Ambiguous Territory emerged from a symposium and exhibition held at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017, and exhibitions at the University of Virginia and Pratt Manhattan Gallery in 2018, and at Ithaca College in 2019. The conversations that arise in this book are inquisitive and critically engaged. They pressure assumptions we routinely make about what constitutes meaningful and principled perspectives in architecture, landscape architecture, and art. Both the texts and the work take on some of the trickiest issues of our time.

-- Excerpt from a foreword to the book by Catherine Ingraham

Professor, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt Institute

The works in Ambiguous Territory exist in a creative space, in the moody realm of possibilities. It's a sphere of design in which solutions (or lack thereof) have yet to settle. That should be a familiar feeling for all creative people, whose daily life may include exploring a way out of a problem without being able to nail down an exact answer. This volume belongs in that territory of ambiguity and curiosity, a place where there is room for musings, laughter, and despair. The projects convey, in different ways, a hope for a better future, but also a sense of not knowing if that future is at all possible.

-- Excerpt from an afterword to the book by Peder Anker

Professor, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

With Contributions of Ellie Abrons, Paula Gaetano Adi, amid.cero9, Amy Balkin, Philip Beesley, Ursula Biemann, The Bittertang Farm, Edward Burtynsky, Bradley Cantrell, Gustavo Crembil, Brian Davis, Design Earth, Mark Dion, Formlessfinder, Lindsey french, Adam Fure, Futureforms, Michael Geffel, Rania Ghosn, David Gissen, El Hadi Jazairy, Harrison Atelier, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Lisa Hirmer, Catherine Ingraham, Lydia Kallipoliti, Perry Kulper, Sean Lally, Landing Studio, Lateral Office, LCLA, Mark Lindquist, LiquidFactory, Ariane Lourie-Harrison, Meredith Miller, Thom Moran, Ricardo de Ostos, NaJa & deOstos, Nemestudio, Mark Nystrom, OMG / O'Donnell Miller Group, The Open Workshop, Ricardo de Ostos, oOR / Office of Outdoor Research, Jennifer Peeples, pneumastudio, Alessandra Ponte, Office for Political Innovation, Rachele Riley, RVTR, Smout Allen, smudge studio, Neil Spiller, Terreform ONE, Andreas Theodoridis, Unknown Fields, Liam Young, Marina Zurkow

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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  2. The Territory of Ambiguity
  3. Weird Worlds and Peculiar Practices: Imagining a Tentative Future
  4. How to Become a Landscape Writing Machine
  5. Architecture Without People
  6. Bubbles and the Problem of Voluntary Containment
  7. Tentacle Shapes
  8. Holes
  9. Unclouded
  10. Amy Balkin
  11. NaJa and deOstos
  12. Sean Lally
  13. Ursula Biemann
  14. Kallipoliti and Theodoridis
  15. smudge studio
  16. John Cook
  17. Lateral Office / LCLA Office
  18. amid.cero9
  19. Mark Nystrom
  20. Scavengers and Other Creatures
  21. Practices of Receptivity
  22. Toxic Grotesque Landscapes
  23. Biologic Mediations
  24. Philip Beesley / PBAI / LASG
  25. Harrison Atelier
  26. Lindsey french
  27. Mark Dion
  28. The Bittertang Farm
  29. OFFPOLINN
  30. pneumastudio
  31. Michael Geffel
  32. Neil Spiller
  33. Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
  34. Perry Kulper
  35. OMG
  36. Marina Zurkow
  37. Terreform ONE
  38. FUTUREFORMS
  39. Ellie Abrons
  40. Cyborg Ecologies: Choreographing Landscape Resistance
  41. Of Oil and Ice
  42. Earthlight (Clair de Terre): fin-de-siècle cosmographies
  43. Ambiguous Territory, Complexity and Collaboration
  44. Unknown Fields
  45. NEMESTUDIO
  46. Bradley Cantrell
  47. Brian Davis
  48. The Open Workshop
  49. Edward Burtynsky
  50. Smout Allen
  51. DESIGN EARTH
  52. Gaetano Adi and Crembil
  53. formlessfinder
  54. LiquidFactory
  55. Adam Fure
  56. Lisa Hirmer
  57. oOR
  58. RVTR
  59. Miller and Moran
  60. Landing Studio
  61. Rachele Riley
  62. Archiagape
  63. Editors
  64. Essayists
  65. Exhibitors
  66. Additional Credits