The Architecture of Waste

Name: The Architecture of Waste
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367247461
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Design for a Circular Economy

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The Architecture of Waste explores the urgent global material crises and the shift from recycling as a choice to an environmental necessity. It examines current recycling practices, manufacturing, and design strategies to promote a circular economy and sustainable reuse of materials. Featuring perspectives from experts and twelve innovative design proposals, the book addresses cultural, political, economic, and scientific aspects of waste and material reuse, framing a historical and forward-looking view to inspire transformation in architecture and design.
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This book is ideal for professionals and students in architecture, design, and related fields who seek to understand and engage with sustainable practices and circular economies in material use and construction.

Global material crises are imminent. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material objects.

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Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behaviour, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects.

The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis, including cultural psyches, politics, economics, manufacturing, marketing, and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frame the research by providing a past, present, and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical, the material, and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials in architecture—an admirable endeavour but one that does not engage the urgent reality of a circular economy—by aiming to transform familiar, yet flawed, material-objects into closed-loop resources.

Complete with over 150 colour images and written for both professionals and students, The Architecture of Waste is a necessary reference for rethinking the traditional role of the architect and challenging the discipline to address urgent material issues within the larger design process.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367247461

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 November 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 56 Line drawings, color; 115 Halftones, color

Contributors:

Edited by Caroline O'Donnell
Edited by Dillon Pranger

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1006g

Pages: 306

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Caroline O’Donnell is an Irish architect, educator, and writer. She is principal of CODA, winner of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with Party Wall which was built at PS1 in 2013. CODA’s work focuses on responsive, dynamic architectures, the misuse of materials, and the manipulation of perceptions. O'Donnell is Associate Professor, Edgar A. Tafel Professor of Architecture and director of the M.Arch program at Cornell University and has previously taught at The Cooper Union and Harvard GSD. She has a B.Arch. from Manchester University, England (2000) with a specialization in Bioclimatics and an M.Arch. from Princeton University (2004). She was editor-in-chief of the Cornell Journal of Architecture from 2009-2017, and co-founder of Pidgin magazine. Her book Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships between Architecture and Site was published with Routledge in 2016. This book describes a design agenda that looks toward natural and local resources to produce meaningful architecture.

Dillon Pranger is a licensed architect, fabricator, and academic. His current research involves unconventional building materials and construction techniques. These explorations have been realized through his involvement with various pavilion installations including the 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program installation, Lumen by Jenny Sabin Studio, the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program installation, Hide and Seek by Dream the Combine, and Primitive Hut by OMG! His personal works have been featured in Cornell University’s John Hartell Gallery, Association vol. 8, PLAT Journal, Residential Design vol. 2, and Architect Magazine, among others. Pranger has taught at institutions including, Harvard GSD, Cornell University, and Syracuse University. He holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati (2012) and an M.Arch. from Cornell University (2015).