{"product_id":"blue-architecture-water-design-and-environmental-futures-hardback-9781477325100","title":"Blue Architecture; Water, Design, and Environmental Futures (Hardback) 9781477325100","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWater, Design, and Environmental Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrook Muller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477325100, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 27 color and 7 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBuilt environments are greedy. They consume much from nature. \u003ci\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e provides a vision for reversing the scheme of things and a roadmap for buildings to produce ecosystem services. By giving creative agency to water, Brook Muller offers vital new approaches to urban architecture.\u003c\/div\u003e— Frederick R. Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, author of Making Plans: How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA brilliant teacher, theorist and designer, Brook Muller claims the liminal as his domain in advancing water as a foundation for architectural and urban design. He connects poesis with pragmatics, historical vernaculars with the cutting-edge technological, and accountable supply chain with participatory community action. Muller takes on ecosystems courageously, preparing us for the complexity of the conditions we live in, and offering multiple relevant models for realizing hydrologically responsive urban architectures. I want to live in Muller's future, one in which designers are infrastructural collaborators and stewards helping usher in new processes as we build our common future.\u003c\/div\u003e— Frances Bronet, President, Pratt Institute\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSpirited, teeming with firsthand accounts and exemplary projects drawn from around the world, \u003ci\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e leads us through the ways architecture can holistically incorporate water systems beyond the footprint of a single building. Brook Muller not only delivers a different way to look at the role design can play in addressing environmental uncertainty, but also reveals the values designers might bring to their work.\u003c\/div\u003e— Anthony Acciavatti, Yale University, author of Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis decentralized account of architectural design reconceives the ways in which urban spaces are inhabited and the habituations of those living within such environs. Muller's analysis carefully and critically meanders throughout different climates and cities, demonstrating the particular and non-universalizable agency of water...Written in an approachable manner for any student of the environment, architecture, art, or philosophy, Muller demonstrates an expertise and familiarity with the terrain of contemporary urban problems and their historical development...Arguing for an understanding of water as agential rather than material obstacle, Muller reconceives not only the task of urban architecture but sustainable development as a whole.\u003c\/div\u003e— Environmental Philosophy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWith every crippling drought and devastating flood, it becomes clearer that climate change requires both new technics and new politics of urban water . . . it is architects and other professionals engaged primarily at the scale of sites and buildings who will find [\u003ci\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e] most useful.\u003c\/div\u003e— Journal of the American Planning Association\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMuller's model pulls planners, designers, and scholars into a growing conversation that calls on water first to guide future populations away from isolated resource extraction, industrial conveyance, and erasure schemes whose ethics and economies are becoming outmoded, and toward our era's urgency for more inclusive human-nature approaches. Brook Muller's \u003ci\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e rightly looks to water and watersheds as integrative designer-builders in 'the hydrological city'.\u003c\/div\u003e— H-Net Reviews\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Finalist, PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  A guide to water-focused and climate-resilient architectural and urban design.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Le Corbusier famously said, \"A house is a machine for living in.\" We now confront the litany of environmental challenges associated with the legacy of the architectural machine: a changing climate, massive species die-off, diminished air and water quality, and resource scarcities. Brook Muller offers an alternative: water-centric urban design that fosters sustainability, equity, and architectural creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInspired by the vernacular, such as the levadas of Madeira Island and both the arid and drenched places of the American West, Muller articulates a \"hydro-logical\" philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop. From these interactions—and the new technologies and approaches enabling them—aesthetic, spatial, and experiential opportunities follow. Not content merely to work around sensitive ecology, Muller argues for genuinely climate-adapted urban landscapes in which buildings act as ecological infrastructure that actually improve watersheds while delivering functionality and beauty for diverse communities. Rich in images and practical examples, \u003ci\u003eBlue Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way we think about our designed world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Hydraulic or Hydrologic?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Aqueous Mediums, Urban Architectures, Anadromous Beings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Liquid-Shaped Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. In Concentrate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Reconstituting Architectural Horizons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Redrawing Waters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: Reflections in Depths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary of Terms for the Water-Conscious Designer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePermissions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590968111384,"sku":"9781477325100","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blue-architecture-water-design-and-environmental-futures-hardback-9781477325100","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}