Beyond Sustainable : Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation (Paperback)

Part I: Technological Mediation 1. In Pursuit of Comfort: From Campfire to Smart Home 2. Wall Performance: Two Views of Nature, the Visual and the Visceral 3. Of Life and Death: The Interior Atmosphere-Environments of the Greenhouse and the Gas Chamber Part II: Environmental Identification 4. Back Home from the Frontier: Considering an Eco-Effective Design 5. Dwelling Deep: Towards a Transpersonal Architecture of Self-realization! Part III: Bio-Physical Inter-Action 6. Invisible Worlds: Constructing an Architecture of the Sensorium 7. Beyond the Prosthesis: Architectural Augmentation and Human Evolution 8. The Bio-Physical Dwelling: Sh?saku Arakawa and Madeline Gins’ Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa)