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Agriculture and
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. “The Limits to Growth”
  4. “Beyond Industrial Technology”
  5. “Small is Beautiful”
  6. “Permaculture One”
  7. “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


Envoi: “What is a world?”



Current exhibition
Lectures


Interview


Galerie


Statements and Reviews


Book 


Info / Credits
Mark

Info




Talk with Rem Koolhaas and Sébastien Marot for exhibition closing in Brussels.
Université de la Cambre Horta


Conférence inaugurale de l'exposition
“Agriculture and Architecture : Taking the Country's side”

Agriculture and Architecture:: Taking the Country’s Side - Conference. Part 1/3.
Colin Moorcraft, Carolyn Steel, Joëlle Zask




Agriculture and Architecture:: Taking the Country’s Side - Conference. Part 2/3.
Colin Moorcraft, Carolyn Steel, Joëlle Zask


Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side - Conference. Part 3/3.
Debate from Trienal de Lisboa on Vimeo.