Being the Mountain

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Being the Mountain

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Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles, Jesús Vassallo

Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, revisiting key moments in architectural history to uncover new potentials in this fundamental interaction. This richly illustrated collection of essays revists significant moments in architectural history that cast new light on the techniques and legacies of modernism, especially in settings like Mexico and California, where architects such as Ricardo Legorreta and John Lautner incorporated dramatic natural topography in their agendas. Additional essays investigate the role of the ground in the thought of Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s and Luis Moreno Mansilla in the 1990s, as well as point to important parallels between premodern land practices, twentieth-century art, and today’s architecture. Together, these episodes call into question our received assumptions and present new possibilities for the connection between a building and its site.

Preface by Dirk Denison. Co-published with the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Press.

Eds. Publication date Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price PRODUCTORA May 2020 6.7 x 9.4 in. / 17 x 24 cm Hardcover · 96 pages 978-1-94876-551-0 $34.95 / €32 / £29

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