Landscape futures
Subtitle: instruments, devices and architectural inventions
By: edited by Geoff Manaugh
Contributors: Nevada Museum of Art
Publisher: Nevada Museum of art; Actar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Reno, NV]; Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9788415391142
Subjects: Art and architecture; Exhibitions; Scientific apparatus and instruments in art; Architecture; Technological innovations; Scientific apparatus and instruments
Description: This work travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales - from the handheld to the inhabitable - reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a room-sized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fictions as a means of exploring different futures.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Aug. 13, 2011-Feb. 19, 2012.