Unless

The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Kiel Moe

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English

Actar Publishers
16 March 2021

Architectural structure & design; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Construction & heavy industry; Building construction & materials

"Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.

In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A ""beautiful"" building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework."

By: Kiel Moe
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781948765398
ISBN 10: 194876539X
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 16 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kiel Kenneth Moe is a registered practicing American architect. Moe has taught architecture and energy at University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, Northeastern University and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Reviews for Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Through more literal descriptions of architecture, architects, designers, researchers, and historians can come to see the terrestrial basis of building. Further, by refraining from abstracting those myriad processes, they can start to reason and imagine designs that better engage our terrestrial realities. --Kiel Moe, Metropolis Magazine