Architecture and anthropocene

Indice
From hut-building to Earth-shaping
(The growing extension of artifice; An increasingly central disciplinary concern)
The Modernist paradigm
(Harnessing the unused power of nature; Sealed volumes and open perimeters; The crisis of the Modernist paradigm; Technological separations; The limits to growth; Uncharted new territories: The monuments of Passaic)
Sustainable development paradigms
(Reduction of energy consumption; Reduction of resource consumption; Reduction of the overall impact of human population)
Design paradigms for the Anthropocene
(Humanity as an Earth-shaping force; Second Nature; The anticipations of the avant-gardes of the 60s; Mixing the natural and artificial; Working on the artificial layer; Thinning the human layer
Design experiments
The changing shape of water
Reuse of an artillery emplacement
Die Wassermeile
Temporary food court along the beach
Low Budget Living Röcklbrunnstrasse
Refurbishment and extension of a hotel
Extension of a spread-out hotel
Reclamation of a mining village
References
Acknowledgements.