On Tents and Caves

Being the Mountain, Essay, Frank Escher, No Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Alternative Domesticity, Architecture, Architecture&design, Architecture&nature, California, Concrete, Design strategies, Earth, Essay, Geology, Greenery, Housing, Inhabiting Landscape, Landform Design, Landscape Architecture, Los Angeles, Materials, Modernism, Raw materials, Research, Roof, Singular Housing, Space, Timber, USA, User’s experience

This essay is an excerpt of "Being The Mountain" by PRODUCTORA, published by Actar Publishers and the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Press -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2020932411

This book is the result of research PRODUCTORA initiated as winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for Emerging Practice at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Written in Vienna in 1912, a place and time marked by some of the most radical cultural shifts of the last century, Rudolf M. Schindler’s “Moderne Architektur: ein Programm” describes the origins of architecture and offers two directives for the architecture of that moment: first, that architecture must concern itself not with the object, but with space; and second, that architecture is to be from and of the earth.