 | Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Built Environment; Geography; Human Geography; Psychological Science; Architecture; Environmental Psychology; Architectural History; Sustainable Architecture; Theory of Architecture; Cultural Geography; Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change. This volume accepts that human-beings have reached a moment beyond climatological and ecological crisis. It asks not how we resolve the crisis but, rather, how we can cope with, or adapt to, the irreversible changes in the earth-system by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world-ecology. Through an examination of numerous historical and contemporary projects of architecture and art, as well as observations in philosophy, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, neurobiology and psychology, this book reimagines architecture capable of influencing and impacting who we are, how we live, what we feel and even how we evolve. Beyond Sustainable provides students and academics with a single comprehensive overview of this architectural reconceptualization, which is grounded in an ecologically inclusive and co-productive understanding of architecture. Ryan Ludwig is an architect and educator teaching at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design, in the college of Design Architecture Art and Planning. He is the founding principal of Ludwig-ArchOffice (L-AO), a design and research studio focused on inclusive and adaptable approaches to architectural design. He is a recipient of a Fall 2018 MacDowell Fellowship and Centrum Artist Residency; is a co-editor of the book The Function of Form ; and has previously published essays in numerous online and print journals. |
