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This third volume in a series presenting young architecture and design talents - Brayer and Simonot co-edited the previous two focusing on global architecture and living space - turns its attention to building with the land. Projects by 30 innovative young practices - including Field Operations, Tom Leader, NOX, Servo, Vicente Guallart and Kengo Kuma - confront and offer proposals and solutions to such issues as dwindling natural resources, land engineering, the city as ecosystem and the sensitive development of brown sites.

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Library Journal Review

This dazzling exhibition catalog is a byproduct of the 2002 conference by ArchiLab, a well-named annual conference-cum-exhibition sponsored by the Regional Contemporary Art Funds Center in Orleans, France. From its inception in 1999, it has proven to be a magnet for forward-looking architects, theorists, and enthusiastic onlookers intent upon exploring the outer limits of architectural expression. The 2002 exhibition was organized around the ambitious but rather nebulous theme of earth building. Like previous ArchiLab catalogs, this one is oversized, exuberantly illustrated with frenzied multipage spreads showcasing each participating architectural firm's creations (mostly unbuilt), and prefaced with intriguing but often inscrutably academic essays by leading scholars and practitioners. The 30 participants, predominantly from Europe and Asia, represent an almost overwhelming diversity of approaches and attitudes toward building "with the land." However, they all share a vision of sweeping architectural innovation that operates within a context of political, economic, societal, and ecological interdependence. Well recommended for academic and professional collections, if only to suggest to a U.S. audience that there may be more to building "green" than installing windows that open and planting lawns on rooftops.-David Soltesz, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.