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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

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REFRAMING THE PRACTICE & THEORY OF DESIGN

In which the mindful reader, reviewing the main concerns of permaculture – sparing efforts and energy (utilitas), increasing resilience (firmitas) and managing worlds (venustas) – is led to wonder whether its proponents might not have evolved the most consistent theory of design since Vitruvius and Alberti, and the fiercest challenge to the alleged rationality at work in the spheres of agriculture, architecture and urbanism today.



(an update is pending translation)