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Architecture and Ecology
Instructor: Kiel Moe
Video Description: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fjnnxrf7o1s7t1w/AAAoepJzC_Trn7H1S2dnYbv_a?dl=0
Short Description: Architecture reorganizes both nature and society. The resulting terrestrial transformations—realized through processes such as the design of building, urbanization, and planetary climates—are all artifacts of how architects conceive, configure, and channel the energetics and materials of architecture. This seminar offers a perspective on the dynamics of architecture’s ecology that is at once conceptual, analytic, and projective. Ecosystem science methods of describing architecture’s physical basis will be combined with world-systems frameworks that help articulate the political and social affects of architectural production, such as the uneven exchanges and environmental load displacements that underlie contemporary architectural production. The primary aim of the seminar is a more literal, terrestrial description of architec