Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Kiel Moe, Lecture, No Density, Territory and mobility, Unless

Architect’s role, Building construction, Built environment, Cultural agitator, Ecosystem ecology, Energetic Approach, Energy, Geopolitics, Global Awareness, History of Architecture, Iconic architecture, Inequality, Lecture, New York, Permanent exchange, Power of materiality, Spatial definition, Territory&thermodynamics, USA

Masterclass by Kiel Moe held at ETSALS for the Master in Integrated Architectural Design on the 11th of November 2020.

Kiel Moe talks about his book Unless, a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes nature and society in particular ways that today demand overt attention and new methods of description.