{"product_id":"subnature-9781568987774","title":"Subnature","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust  mud  gas  smoke  debris  weeds  and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of todays discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the direct result of human habitation  these \"subnatural forces\" are nothing new. In fact  our ability to manage these forces has long defined the limits of civilized life. From its origins  architecture has been engaged in both fighting and embracing these so-called destructive forces. In Subnature  David Gissen  author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green  examines experimental work by todays leading designers  scholars  philosophers  and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world  free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary design practice.  The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture. R\u0026amp;Siens Mosquito Bottleneck house in Trinidad uses a skin that actually attracts mosquitoes and moves them through the building  while keeping them separate from the occupants. In his building designs the architect Philippe Rahm draws the dank air from the earth and the gasses and moisture from our breath to define new forms of spatial experience. In his Underground House  Mollier House  and Omnisport Hall  Rahm forces us to consider the odor of soil and the emissions from our body as the natural context of a future architecture. Cero 9s design for the Magic Mountain captures excess heat emitted from a power generator in Ames  Iowa  to fuel a rose garden that embellishes the industrial site and creates a natural mountain rising above the citys skyline. Subnature looks beyond LEED ratings  green roofs  and solar panels toward a progressive architecture based on a radical new conception of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666099626037,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568987773","price":77.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568987774.jpg?v=1782419578","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/subnature-9781568987774","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}