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Dirty Futures: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Nature
Author(s) -
Ward Geoff
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1594
Subject(s) - futures contract , relation (database) , natural (archaeology) , architecture , sociology , art history , law , aesthetics , history , art , visual arts , political science , computer science , business , archaeology , finance , database
Not only do bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells, but human habitation leaves microbial traces in the air and on surfaces. With these facts in mind, architect and academic Geoff Ward re‐examines recent perceptions of ‘the dirty’ and recasts the natural in architecture in relation to it.