Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain

The Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured in an essay by Stan Allen in Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain.

From the publisher: 

"Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture."

Read Stan Allen's article, "From the Biological to the Geological," below.