Title: Taking the country's side :
Date: 2019
Publisher: Polígrafa,
Physical description: 215 pages : illustrations
Language: Spanish
LC classification: S
Abstract: The environmental predicament the world is now facing (climate change, peak oil, mineral and metal depletion, soil erosion, fresh water scarcity, biodiversity collapse, etc.) seriously challenges the ways in which human societies have developed since at least the industrial revolution. Our ways of procuring and managing basic resources, particularly food, fibers and energy but also of inhabiting and organizing territories (architecture and urbanism) will necessarily be deeply affected, and are key issues if human societies are to prepare themselves for the highly problematic decades ahead. In this context, our core hypothesis is that agriculture and architecture (which emerged as the twin fairies of the Neolithic Revolution some 10 000 years ago) forms a nexus, and that their respective concerns, after two centuries of progressive divorce and estrangement, should indeed be closely re-connected (i.e. rethought in conjunction to each other).00Are metropolises really the?manifest destiny? of humankind? Is the environmental predicament calling for more concentration and incorporation? Or is it conducive to some kind of urban exodus? By and large, what might be the principles and ethics of design in such a condition?0These are some of the issues that this book addresses.0Providing a rear-view mirror onto the parallel evolutions of agriculture, architecture and urbanism in the past centuries, its core hypothesis is that permaculture, which drew on vernacular and agrarian practices, and was framed 40 years ago as a design approach to the building and maintenance of resilient agro systems in times of energy descent, could deeply inspire architecture and landscape design today, and lead them into a new? and much urgently needed??poetics of reason?.00Exhibition: Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal (03.10.-02.12.2019).
Notes: Pub. on the occasion of the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa : The poetics of reason, Lisbon, Portugal, October 3-December 2, 2019.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Exhibitions.; Architecture--Environmental aspects--Exhibitions.; Environmental protection--Exhibitions.; Landscapes in art--Exhibitions.; Rural conditions in art--Exhibitions.