Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Architectural Fragile Earth: Ground, the newest edition in the cutting-edge C . J. Lim/Studio 8 Architects series, presents architectural designs whose inspiration is the membrane. Presenting previously unpublished designs for architectural skins, surfaces, walls and enclosures from the world's leading architectural schools as well as such well-known names in architecture and engineering as Ove Arups, this fascinating volume proves how seamlessly science and art can merge. Featuring the series' hallmark eclectic mix of thoughts and observations and projects from both obscure and celebrated
architects, Architectural Fragile Earth: Ground, brings some of the best creative work in architecture today together in a single volume.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I Fruit
• Itsuko hasegawa
• Herzog + de meuron
• Akira kurosawa
• II Metropolis
• R buckminster fuller
• Zaha hadidhsu tai
• III Life + Death
• Enric miralles
• Oscar satio oiwa
• Carme pinos
• Gabriel tang
• IV Sleep
• Awg_AllesWirdGut
• Kisho kurokawa
• Tono mirai
• V Territories
• Marie-ange brayer
• Antony gormley
• VI Territorialisation
• Ben addy
• Marjan colletti
• Marcos cruz
• Georgetherobin
• Matthew wells
• Part VII Prosthesis
• James bond
• Ellen ripley
• John steed
• VIII Dialogue
• Laurie anderson
• Digit
• Peg rawes
• IX Purification
• Oscar satio oiwa
• Alvaro siza .matthias suchert
• X Vectors
• Hiroshi hara
• Mark whitby
• XI Absence + Trace
• Tessera
• XII Fish
• Tetsuo furuichi
• Frank o gehry
• Damien hirst
• XIII Wrapping
• Christo + jeanne-claude