GeoLogics
Geography Information Architecture
Door Vicente Guallart
2008, Actar
544 p
ISBN 978-84-95951-61-8
Engelse tekst
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The research presented in this book condenses the work carried out over the last fifteen years, oriented toward the development of architecture projects. Our practice encompasses multiple scales, from the territorial project, the creation and reform of cities, the design of neighbourhoods, landscape, the buildings, the homes, the objects that inhabit it and the informational relationship between them. ‘From bits to geography.’

This multiscale approach is prompted by a recognition of the need to think and create ecosystems in their entirety rather high-profile one-off actuations isolated from the city and the territory. A process oriented toward creating conditions of habitability in the territory more than constructing buildings. We are, then, more interested in the systemic character of the architecture than in its iconic character per se.

There would be no need for architecture if human beings were content to live in caves or in trees. Architecture is necessary to create conditions of habitability that are not dependent on the time of day or the time of year, on the climatic conditions of the environment anywhere in the territory. Architecture, then, must emerge in specific places, at particular moments in history, in a continuous process of re-foundation of the territory.

Geography is the science that deals with the mapping of physical, economic or social phenomena on the territory. . It deals with mountain ranges, trade flows and social interactions. Every architectural project is thus a manipulation of the geographic parameters of a place.

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