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Paola Gregory New Scapes Territoy of the Complexity,
Birkhäuser, Basilea
2003 e Territori della Complessita, NewScapes,Testo&Immagine,
Torino 2003
Preface dy Antonino Saggio
"Information Landscapes"
Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical designs and the realization.
Author Paola Gregory examines this interplay between buildings and landscapes
present in today´s architecture scene, illustrating her analysis
with exciting examples including the ecological landscapes of James Wines
and Greg Lynn, the virtual environments of Marcos Novak and Nox, buildings
by Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito which actively incorporate passers-by and surroundings
by means of new media.
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