DMAA NON ENDLESS SPACE

Non Endless Space
Architecture in the Age of Transformation

Ever since it was founded 30 years ago, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has devoted itself to the vision of fully integrating nature, people, their surroundings and the built environment into fluid, permanently evolving ecologies that are rooted in a critical evaluation of the given circumstances and programmatic guidelines. The resulting structures react to the forces inherent to the specific location and translate sensitive and observation-based information about the task at hand into complex spatial propositions.

In addition to examples of DMAA’s way of working, this publication also contains several contributions that appeared in the online magazine “Questions and Architecture”, which was launched by the office with the aim of informing their work by investigating such areas as “Biodiversity and Artificial Ecosystems”, “Finite Resources” and “Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene”.

The book is a mixture of visual inspiration, condensed detail and informed reflection, all seen through the ‘lens’ of an office that meets the challenges of our time with the informed and curious intuition of environmental practitioners.

Open book spread: left page blue-toned landscape photograph; right page shows large bold text DMAA NON ENDLESS SPACE.

Open book displaying two architectural photos: left shows interlocking wooden lattice beams; right shows a circular white concrete terraced garden.

Open design book displaying architectural renderings: left page vertical garden towers; right page urban courtyard with people.

Open book displaying a yellow-tinted landscape photograph on the left page and dense text on the right page.

DMAA has established a reputation for searching for solutions that are largely liberated from predetermined recipes or precise expectations.

In urban projects the ‘motif’ of urban greenery can be traced from the planting of a room, a façade, a building, or a neighbourhood to a district park as it is translated into the sensual qualities of the natural environment.

Two-page spread: blue waterfront with a glass-domed pavilion on the left and a red multi-story parking garage on the right.

Two-page magazine spread: left page shows a green landscape with trees and water reflection; right page shows blue and red geometric patterns.

Open magazine spread with two gray pie charts and a world map on the left; right page shows dense text columns and a small pier sketch.

Open magazine spread showing a bold right page with Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene and gray left panels on a white surface.

Kellogg's cereal factory towers with pedestrians and outdoor seating on left page; modern campus walkway lined with palm trees on right page.

Open book spread on white surface; left page gray with large DMAA NON ENDLESS SPACE text, right page green-tinted landscape photo.

Environmental architecture is an invented term that describes an architecture that is aware of its holistic responsibility and lives up to this responsibility by going well beyond the boundaries of any site or the well-established routines of the discipline.

ISBN
978-3-0356-2591-2

e-ISBN (PDF)
978-3-0356-2593-6

Pages: 210
Language: English
37 Illustrations
150 Coloured Illustrations

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Row of grey design magazines with large bold text reading NON ENDLESS SPACE and DMAA on the covers, fanned on a white surface.

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