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Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture

Edwina Attlee, Phineas Harper and Maria Smith

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Description:This book of original short stories, written by architects, engineers, and novelists, explores the architecture of the near future glimpsed through the lens of fictional characters, places and buildings. What will the architecture of the future be like? How will cities change with environmental breakdown? How will people travel once cars are ancient history? What will buildings look like when bricks and mortar are no longer instruments of financial accumulation? _____The relationship between real and fictional cities is blurry. Ideas which begin as literary speculations can shape the physical world.Both architects and novelists tell stories about place; real and imagined. They are in this sense both urban practitioners, creating neighbourhoods to serve communities and articulating the values of societies through the design of their streets.This book presents seventeen short stories written by designers and authors imagining the trajectory of architecture, cities and economics amid a backdrop of profound climate and social change. It includes original stories by science fiction author Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Man Booker Nominee Sophie Mackintosh (The Water Cure), the writer Will Self (Junk Mail, Great Apes) and a short graphic novel by Mill & Jones (Square Eyes) among others.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture. To get started finding Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book of original short stories, written by architects, engineers, and novelists, explores the architecture of the near future glimpsed through the lens of fictional characters, places and buildings. What will the architecture of the future be like? How will cities change with environmental breakdown? How will people travel once cars are ancient history? What will buildings look like when bricks and mortar are no longer instruments of financial accumulation? _____The relationship between real and fictional cities is blurry. Ideas which begin as literary speculations can shape the physical world.Both architects and novelists tell stories about place; real and imagined. They are in this sense both urban practitioners, creating neighbourhoods to serve communities and articulating the values of societies through the design of their streets.This book presents seventeen short stories written by designers and authors imagining the trajectory of architecture, cities and economics amid a backdrop of profound climate and social change. It includes original stories by science fiction author Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Man Booker Nominee Sophie Mackintosh (The Water Cure), the writer Will Self (Junk Mail, Great Apes) and a short graphic novel by Mill & Jones (Square Eyes) among others.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture. To get started finding Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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