Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy by Etienne Turpin


Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy
Title : Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy
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ISBN : 1607853078
ISBN-10 : 9781607853077
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 262
Publication : First published November 25, 2013

Architecture in the Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin, brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice.

Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth's land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is almost certain that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds.

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