Terrarium. Earth Design: Ecology, Architecture and Landscape
Synopsis
Terrarium collects research and reflections on the relationship between space, soil, vegetation and the biotic community, linked through the metaphor of the terrarium. The book is curated by a research group from the Ph.D. program “Architectural Urban Interior Design”, coordinated by Alessandro Rocca (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano), involved in the PRIN Sylva by the IUAV research unit.
Chapters
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Terrarium as a Design Metaphor
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An Oculus Into the Ground. Motherhouse and Presencing Homesickness by Drawing
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Affective Encounters: Nature Close to The Skin
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Chinese Garden. Allegorical Ecologies in an Urbanizing World
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Landscape Archive Collections. Design the Contemporary Terrarium
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Terraria. An Experimental Grammar of Soil Contaminations
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Debris Terrarium. Berlin and Its Void Islands
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Trenches, Wells, And Boullée’s Pyramids
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Cabin Fever
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Foundations. Roots of an Ecosystem
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The Legacy of the Italian Naturalistic Hydraulics School
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Acqua viva e corrente: Insights From Renaissance Fontanieri Mastery
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The Palm House. A Project of Domestication
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Vegetation as Architectural Forms. Site’s Irony and Design Perspectives
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The Philosophical City. The Becoming-World of The Città Vecchia of Cosenza
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Fort Ecologies and the Planetary Terrarium
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A Need For Change. Vienna, a Performative Beauty
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Stolen Land. Disappearing Islands and the Maldivian Paradox
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Alleanze. A Terrarium as an Unfinished Monument
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In Vitro Landscapes
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Earthly Emergences: Spontaneous Entities
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Piling, Mending, Reassembling: Aesthetic and Poetic of the Subaltern Landscapes
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An Asphalt Terrarium. The Hippodrome of Tor Di Valle
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Infrastructure as a Terrarium. Between Discovery and Re-Discovery of the Involuntary
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Infrastructure of the Unexpected. Corvetto Flyover as a Transgressive Terrarium
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Post-Industrial Synanthropia. Spontaneous Vegetation and Architectural Decay
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Super Toxic Terrariums. Sperimental Scenarios for Toxic Landscapes
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Lagunarium. Among the Ruins of Valli Da Pesca
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River Imaginaries. The Renaturation of the Po Region
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Fucino: From Water to Land
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Reclaimed Landscapes. The Pontine Marshes as a Design Prototype for a New Alliance
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Green-Covered: The Sint-Pietersberg As A Terrarium Of Cultures
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Above the Roof. Designing Second Chances
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Bibliographies and Biographies

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September 17, 2024
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