Architecture As Environmental Media - Rendering the Planetary

This edited volume explores the agency of environmental media in architectural production. As design disciplines confront the changing landscapes and consequences of climate breakdown, media for communicating socio-environmental relations play an increasingly critical role in defining new narratives for the future of our planet.

List of contents

Introduction: A Possible Bouquet: Rifts and Realisms in Environmental Media Part 1. Rendering Visible 1. Temporal Constructs in Designed Forests: Narratives of Progress, Cyclicality, and Concurrence 2. Perfect Incompleteness 3. The Material Geopolitics of Sand 4. Surrounded by Sea, Haunted by Dust Part 2. Rendering Sensible 5. The Map and the Medicine Wheel: Architecture as Cosmic Instrument 6. Eco Logics 7. Forces of Nature: Rendering Environmental Empathy in a Digital World 8. Collaborative Game Simulation and Toxic Embodiment in the Anthropocene:A Consciousness of Mud...EXCUSE MY DUST Part 3. Rendering Actionable 9. Embodied Colonialism, Post-Colonial Counternarratives and Archives of the Future 10. Ambiguous Practices 11. Radical Ruralisms: Insurgent Spaces for Land and Food Sovereignty 12. Planting Buildings

About the author

Daniel Jacobs is Instructional Assistant Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. His work examines the politics of environmental representation in architecture and the changing role of labor production in architecture. Jacobs is a registered architect in Texas and New York.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Jacobs
• Assisted by: Daniel Jacobs (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032787145
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278714-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Media Studies, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, DESIGN / Essays, Applied ecology, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Industrial / commercial art & design, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Landscape architecture and design, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics