To Defend, Retreat or Adapt? Design Responses to the Excess and Disappearance of Water.

This paper reiterates a vast transformation occurring in architecture, landscapearchitecture, and urban design—a transformation that is particularly evident in thefundamental relationship between human habitation and water. It is the transformationfrom the conquering paradigm, in which construction becomes a mechanism forcontrolling nature, to a more adaptive and responsive agenda in which construction issituated as a latent system, fluctuating in response to the forces of ecology. We havetransitioned from a mode of controlled nature to the condition of calibrated ecologies.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6