Urbanista review of GDNYU London
“Elsewhere Envisioned – Global Design NYU” Urbanista, Feb 2013.
从包豪斯到生态建筑 From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
从包豪斯到生态建筑
佩德 安克尔
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design
Chinese edition of my book
佩德 安克尔所著的《从包豪斯到生态建筑》以哈佛大学设计学院绿色现代课程内容为基础，聚焦于生态学思想与设计的融合，从英国复兴包豪斯的历史开始，至美 国人致力于维护生态世界的愿望止，总结了从20世纪30年代到80年代冷战结束为止生态设计的复杂历史。著名设计师拉斯洛·莫霍伊—纳吉，生物学家、生态 学家朱利安·赫胥黎，包豪斯学校创始人沃尔特·格罗皮乌斯，穹顶建筑师巴克敏斯特·富勒等人与生态建筑的关系都在本书中加以讨论。《从包豪斯到生态建筑》 并不仅为设计史学家和建筑史学家所撰写，同样是科学史和环境史学家的重要读物。
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Wissenschaft als Urlaub: Eine Geschichte der Ökologie in Norwegen
“Wissenschaft als Urlaub: Eine Geschichte der Ökologie in Norwegen” in Tue Greenfort: Eine Berggeschichte, (Dornbirn: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012), 26-57.
Translation of Peder Anker, “Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway,” History of Science, 45:4 (2007), 455-479.
My review of The Illusory Boundary
Martin Reuss; Stephen H. Cutcliffe (Editors). The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History.
Isis, 103:2 (2012), 388-389.
Global Design NYU London 2012
ARCHITECTS and DESIGNERS TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING in LONDON
“Energy-saving technologies are not enough to stem climate change,” says host group from NYU
A groundbreaking exhibition series explores how architecture and design can help reduce climate change and bridge the gap between people and the natural world.
“Elsewhere Envisioned” will draw more than 30 leading designers, architects, landscape architects, urbanists, historians, and scientists to London’s Building Centre from 20 September to 20 October, 2012.
Hosted by NLA – London’s Centre for the Built Environment, “Elsewhere Envisioned” is presented by GLOBAL Design NYU (GDNYU), directed and curated by New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study professors Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim.
WHAT: “Elsewhere Envisioned”
WHEN: 20 September – 20 October, 2012
WHERE: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT
WHO: Free and open to the public
ON VIEW: Drawings and physical models by leading architects and designers
Participants include: Aberrant (UK), ACME (UK), atmos (UK), AWP (France), BIG (Denmark), Biothing (UK), BLOOM (UK), Creus and Carrasco (Spain), CUAC (Spain), David Kohn (UK), doxiadis+ (Greece), Code: Architects / Eriksen + Skajaa (Norway), Fantastic Norway (Norway), Groundlab (UK), Haugen/Zohar (Norway), HHF (Switzerland), Jestico + Whiles (UK), J. Mayer H. (Germany), LAVA (Germany, Australia), Ordinary [Magnus Larsson & Alex Kaiser] (UK), Mi5 (Spain), MMW (Norway), NEA Studio (Norway, USA), New Territories (France), OSA_Office of Subversive Architecture (Germany), Rachel Armstrong (UK), Raumlabor Berlin (Germany), Serie (UK), SLA (Denmark), Specht Harpman (USA), Studio Weave (UK), Terreform ONE (USA), Topotek1 (Germany)
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From Social Psychology to Ecology
Arthur Tansley once amazed his botanical friends by arguing that the psychologist Sigmund Freud was the most important thinker since Jesus. It was indeed remarkable statement for a man who is known for his contributions to the field of ecology. Yet Tansley was also a keen contributor to research on sex-psychology and I suggest here that some of his ecological thinking emerged from his work in social psychology.
Saving Nature: Religion as Environmentalism, Environmentalism as Religion
Tarjei Rønnow
Saving Nature
Religion as Environmentalism, Environmentalism as Religion, Lit Verlag, 2011
In 2009 my friend Tarjei Rønnow died suddenly of heart failure, 41 years old, leaving his two beloved sons, along with his companion, family, and a large group of friends behind. Words cannot express the sorrow I feel for this terrible loss. Among his numerous writings he left us an unfinished manuscript for his Ph.D. thesis, which I have edited so that it could become available to the public. It is my hope that his theses will inspire others in the same way it in numerous ways has inspired me.
Saving Nature approaches environmentalism as a belief system. It explores the impact of environmentalism on faith communities and vice versa, and analyses how environmental worldviews, values, attitudes and discourses affect religion. By drawing on sources in the sociology of religion and environmental sociology, the study sheds light on the religious dimensions of environmentalism. Rønnow locates the quick growth of environmentalism in the history of allegedly secular modernity, and interprets environmentalism in the context of modernity’s re-sacralization.
My review of Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
Isis, 102:3 (2011), 589-590.
Edvard Munchs Aulamalerier: Fra kontroversielt prosjekt til nasjonalskatt
Edvard Munchs Aulamalerier: Fra kontroversielt prosjekt til nasjonalskatt (Edvard Munch’s Aula Paintings: From Controversal Project to National Treasure), with Patricia G. Berman, (Oslo: Messel Forlag, 2011).
[Norwegian] I 1911 skulle Universitetet feire sitt hundreårsjubileum. I den anledning ble Aulaen på Karl Johans gate bygget som en storslått gave og markering av institusjonen. De elleve maleriene som pryder Aulaen hang ikke der ved åpningen, men ble alle malt mellom 1909 og 1916 i en atmosfære av kulturpolitisk kontrovers. Munchs Aulamalerier ble malt etter intense interne dragkamper blant kunstekspertisen, for så å forårsake en like spent offentlig debatt om deres kunstneriske verdi. I dag er de en nasjonalskatt. Denne antologien dokumenterer malerienes dramatiske historie fra de første skisser til den tekniske forfatning de nå befinner seg i snart hundre år etter tilblivelsen
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