Extreme Architecture: Bulding for Challenging Environments

by Ruth Slavid

What kind of architecture emerges in an extreme environment? Responding to some of the ultimate challenges in architecture, the buildings featured in this book provide valuable insight into the extremes of architectural thinking. In an increasingly unstable world, some of the lessons that they teach about self-sufficiency may yet become more generally applicable. Lessons from terrestrial environments are being used in designs for space, while space...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185669609X
• ISBN13: 9781856696098
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Laurence King
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 10.5"