The art of architectural grafting : containing rules for extending museums and anonymous buildings to increase their usefulness and delightfulness and reduce their carbon pollution : together, with experimental trials for the new joinery, very necessary for every architect-grafter, and a proposal for renewing polluted industrial lands with urban forests / Jeanne Gang.
Edition:
English edition.
Publisher:
Park Books,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
183 pages : many illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
"Published with ideas about changing cultural perceptions on the subject and a few personal reflections." Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and glossary.
Contents:
The petite cabane. Julie Cirelli -- Introduction -- VII A corollary to urban grafting: From rust belt to bark belt. On growing -- II Knowing the roots of horticultural grafting. Birds and steel in Chicago -- III Architect-grafter's credo: Ten points and five projects. Nest making -- IV Designs and techniques for joining. Our lady of the critical zone -- V Grafting for urban environments: Examples and projects. In the company of trees -- VI Observations on forests and their relevance. The real assignment -- VII A corollary to urban grafting: From rust belt to bark belt. The petite cabane.
Summary:
"In this book, Jeanne Gang, one of America's most distinguished contemporary architects, proposes applying the plant cultivation technique of grafting to architecture and urban design as a way of rethinking adaptive reuse and combatting climate change. Grafting is the process of connecting two separate living plants--one old and one new--so they can grow and thrive as one. This ancient practice continues to be performed today in search of more fruitful, palatable, and resilient varieties of plants. Grafting is also a useful paradigm for how architecture can address climate change on a broadly impactful scale by reusing and expanding older structures. Addressing both the environmental and cultural value of reuse, Gang shows how the concept of grafting can inform architecture across many scales, provoking the imagination and shaping tectonic, programmatic, formal, and regenerative adaptations"--Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.