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Agriculture &
Architecture:
Taking the
Country’s Side




Prologue


Introduction


Timeline


A. Agriculture & Architecture

  1. Homo Domesticus
  2. Sublimation
  3. Coincidence
  4. Villa Suburbana
  5. Agritecture
  6. Self-Sufficiency
  7. Integration?


B. Agriculture & Urbanism

  1. The Urban Revolution
  2. Mundus
  3. Imago Mundi
  4. Land Use Model
  5. Nature to Market
  6. Urbanism
  7. Agrarian Urbanism?


C. From Agronomy to Agroecology

  1. A Hobby for Urban Elites
  2. Plantations and Enclosures
  3. From alchemy to Chemistry
  4. From War to Field Operations
  5. “Get Big or Get Out” 
  6. Permanent and Organic Agriculture
  7. Beyond Industrial Agriculture


D. Exit Urbs

  1. Zomia
  2. Monasteries
  3. Anarchy and Localism
  4. Ruralism
  5. “Think Little”
  6. “Workers of the World, Disperse”
  7. Becoming Native


E. Facing the Present Environmental Predicament

  1. “A Blueprint for Survival”
  2. Energy Descent
  3. 1972: “The Limits to Growth”
  4. “Beyond Industrial Technology”
  5. “Small is Beautiful”
  6. 1978: “Permaculture One”
  7. 2008: “Future Scenarios”


F. Reframing the Practice & Theory of Design

  1. Major Precedents
  2. Ethic and Design Principles
  3. A Radical Site-Specificity
  4. A Reformulation of Site Planning
  5. Deepening Territories
  6. Reconsidering Urbanism
  7. Sub-Urbanism?

Constellation


Compass


What is a world?



Current exhibition
Lectures


Interview


Gallery


Statements and Reviews


Book 


Info / Credits
Mark

Info



A French version of the exhibition will be published as a book by Éditions Wildproject by the end of 2024.


A first book-catalog produced for and in collaboration with the Lisbon Triennale was published in English as part of the five volumes of the collection “The Poetics of Reason” in 2019 by Polígrafa editions. Its printing has been discontinued.
ISBN 9788434313934.
http://poligrafa.com/es/node/584