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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








Joel Sternfeld, American Prospects, Times Books, Houston, 1987  cover with “Mclean, Virginia, December 4, 1978”



Cliffords Harper,  “Welcome to the Free Land of Albion”, from Undercurrents the Magazine of Radical Science and Alternative Technology, n°20, March 1977










Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Effects of the Good Government, Palazzo Pubblico, Sienna, Mid-14th century



Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Allegory and Effects of the Bad Government, Palazzo Pubblico, Sienna, mid-14th century










Davis Meltzer, A 21st Century Farm, The National Geogaphic Magazine, February 1970




Patrick Geddes, The Valley Section, early 20th century