Lotus 157 (2015)

In addition to the customary way of looking at the city as the epitome of artifice, it is possible to direct our gaze in such a way as to go beyond the conceptual and physical limits of the urban environment as it is commonly understood. In essence, we could give back to urban geography the role that it deserves. In doing so, city planning is faced with the phenomena of the natural ecosystem—always present anyway—which manifests itself through an infinite range of events, linked to the weather as well as the landscape. A new sensibility is emerging as a consequence of these changes in the focus of our attention, and so we are having to say goodbye to a vision of architecture as purely and simply a matter of building.

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Memorie verdi / Green Memories
Franco Purini 

Meteorology
Joel Meyerowitz + John Ruskin 

The Long River
Nadav Kander

Parc aux Angeliques
Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
Parc aux Angeliques, Bordeaux, France, 2010-17 
Paris Saclay, Grand Paris, 2010-16 

Tiers Paysage
Edith Roux + Gilles Clément 

Naturbad
Herzog & de Meuron 
Naturbad Riehen, Natural Swimming Pool Riehen, Switzerland, 2010-14
Plaza de España, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España, 1998-2008
Studio Rémy Zaugg, Mulhouse, France 1995-96 

Reef
Edith Roux + Gilles Clément 

Above the canopy
Lacaton & Vassal
Ecological Neighborhood, La Vecquerie, Saint-Nazaire, France, 2009 

Cathedrals
John Ruskin 

Napoli, Pompei
Vincenzo Castella + ETH Studio Basel 

Skyscape
Joel Meyerowitz + J.D. Salinger 

Verso un’urbanistica sensoriale / Toward a Sensorial Urbanism
Mirko Zardini 

Miasma
William Turner + Henry James 

Taichung Jade Eco Park
Mosbach Paysagistes, Philippe Rahm Architectes, Ricky Liu & Associates
Jade Eco Park, Taichung, Taiwan, 2011-

Watersquares
De Urbanisten
Water Square Benthemplein, Rotterdam, 2011-13

Wild Urbanism
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Zaryadye Park, Moscow, 2013-

Depaving
SeoAhn Total Landscape
Cheonggyecheon Canal Restoration, Seoul, 2003-05 

Clouds
John Ruskin + John Robert Cozens

Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo
Cloudscapes, Tokyo, 2011-12

Steven Holl Architects
Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1993-98

Studio Roosegaarde
Waterlicht, Westervoort, The Netherlands, 2015

Olafur Eliasson
Double Sunset, Utrecht, 2000 

Winter
Egor Kotov + Iosif Brodskij

Walter De Maria
One Sun/34 Moons, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2002

Petra Gipp Arkitektur
The Cathedral Audiovisual Design Workshop
Mjärdevi Science Park, Linköping, Sverige, 2012-14

Chicago, Winter 2013

GUN Architects
Rainforest, London, 2014  

Wind
Jeff Wall + Italo Calvino

Miroir d’eau
Atelier Corajoud
Quai Rive Gauche de la Garonne, Bordeaux, France, 2000-09

Black Rainbow
Cai Guo-Qiang
Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia, 2005 

Noise
William Turner + Gillo Dorfles

Lawrence Halprin
Ira Keller Fountain, Portland, Oregon, 1970

Bill Viola
Going Forth By Day, 2002
The Raft, 2004