The Architecture of Closed Worlds (Or, What is the Power of Shit?) by Lydia Kallipoliti

The Architecture of Closed Worlds is a genealogy of self-reliant environments. Contemporary discussions about global warming, recycling, and sustainability have emerged as direct conceptual constructs related to the study and analysis of closed systems.

From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, this publication documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consensus in the form of a synthetic naturalism. It presents an archive of 37 historical living prototypes from 1928 to the present that put forth an unexplored genealogy of closed resource regeneration systems.

In The Architecture of Closed Worlds, prototypes are presented through unique discursive narratives with historical images. Each includes new analysis in the form of a feedback drawing that problematizes the language of environmental representation by illustrating loss, derailment, and the production of new substances and atmospheres.

Lydia Kallipoliti
Edited in collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture
Contributors: Michelle Addington, Peder Anker, Daniel Barber, Wulf Böer, Christina Ciardullo, Beatriz Colomina, Ross Exo Adams, Mitchell Joachim, Janette Kim & Eric Carver, Bess Krietemeyer, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Jonathan Massey, Albert Narath, Theodora Vardouli, Mark Wigley
Graphic Design: Pentagram

2018
ISBN: 9783037785805
Lars Müller Publishers
10.75 x 7.75 x 0.75 inches
300 pages, 360 illustrations
Paperback