BIG. HOT TO COLD. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation

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Better smart than sorry
An odyssey of architectural adaptation with Bjarke Ingels

After the global success of YES IS MORE, one of the most best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group presents HOT TO COLD, An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation. The book coincides with the HOT TO COLD show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC and presents 60 case studies in harsh climate conditions so as to examine where and how we live to tell the tale our planet.

As we shuttle from one end of the spectrum to its opposite we will be able to see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense its have an effect on on the architecture. The central challenge is to mitigate the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, at the same time as finding solutions that may be both economically and environmentally profitable.

Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we need to live. Our cities and buildings aren’t givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. HOT TO COLD stays true to BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group’s grand mission to find a pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity, but the kind of world we want to inhabit.

The book features:

  • Design from award-winning artists Sagmeister & Walsh
  • Previously unpublished essays by Bjarke Ingels
  • A convertible dust jacket-poster

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