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Architecture follows fish: An amphibious history of the North Atlantic
Architecture Follows Fish is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this book author and architect André Tavares explores the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries....
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Comment les algues peuvent sauver le monde
Et si la solution aux crises écologiques se trouvait dans nos océans ? Nées il y a 1,5 milliard d’années, les algues recouvrent une grande partie du globe terrestre et ont contribué à façonner le monde du vivant. Certaines populations...
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If you want to visit a sea garden
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If you want to visit a sea garden
ea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine...
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La révolution agroécologique : Nourrir tous les humains sans détruire la planète
Mûrs pour la révolution agroécologique? Les échecs de la révolution verte des années 1960 et les dysfonctionnements du système alimentaire mondial actuel ne sont plus à démontrer : épuisement des sols, érosion de la biodiversité, problèmes de santé liés aux...
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La vie des plantes
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La vie des plantes
Nous en parlons à peine et leur nom nous échappe. La philosophie les a toujours négligées ; même la biologie les considère comme une simple décoration de l'arbre de la vie. Et pourtant, les plantes donnent vie à la Terre...
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Seaweeds: Edible, available & sustainable
Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing popularity of sushi restaurants across the...
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Terres chinoises : Mutations et défis urbains en milieu rural
Etude du phénomène d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux en Chine en cours depuis le début du XXIe siècle, piloté par un plan national d'édification des campagnes socialistes. Les mêmes principes urbains sont ainsi appliqués systématiquement à l'ensemble du pays en...
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The life of plants: A metaphysics of mixture
We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that...
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Xu Tiantian: Jinyun Quarries, the quarry as stage
In 2021, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her firm DnA_Design and Architecture were awarded a commission to develop new utilization concepts for the old and today abandoned stone quarries in the northern part of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province....
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Breathe: Investigations into our environmentally tangled future
This book explores breathing and the atmosphere as leitmotifs for the design of an inclusive future in a new climate regime, uncovering intertwinements of societal activities with the air and the atmosphere.With this awareness of entanglement, the deeply performative characteristics...
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Living in Lisbon: An architectural view on housing challenges
Lisbon is being ravaged by an unprecedented housing crisis. The exponential increase of prices, the combined outcome of the financialisation of housing and the lack of continued investment of public policies, means that every Portuguese person is, or knows someone...
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