Niche Tactics Generative Relationships Between Architecture And Site 1st Edition Caroline Odonnell by Caroline O’donnell 9781138793125, 9781315730288, 9781138793118, 9781317548454, 9781317548461, 1138793124, 1315730286, 1138793116, 1317548450 instant download after payment.

Caroline O'Donnell explores architecture's relationship with site and its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment. Including 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics provides a series of case studies that investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined. Interspersed between the case studies are texts on subjects as diverse as giraffe morphology, ugliness, and hopeful monsters. "The language of evolution has been creeping into architecture - words like species, brood, and mutation have become commonplace," says O'Donnell. "But there is one aspect that is often left behind: site. This book goes back to the basics of evolution theory and considers how we might think and design differently if we no longer neglect the role of the environment in the translation from evolution to architecture.