Organization Space
Subtitle: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780262050616
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Theory of architecture; Urban Architecture; Urban Design; Political Science; Architecture; USA; General; Landscape; Planning; Architecture / Landscape; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Space (Architecture)
Description: "The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, highways, and houses. For Keller Easterling, these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts - they are the design.

Bridging the theoretical gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.".

"By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems, highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable."--BOOK JACKET.