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Above the pavement-- the farm! : architecture & agriculture at PF1 / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, editors

Catalog Data

Book designer:
Michaels, Adam 1978-,-  Search this
Author:
Andraos, Amale 1973-  Search this
Wood, Dan 1967-  Search this
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center  Search this
Subject:
Work Architecture Company  Search this
Physical description:
206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New York (State)
New York
Date:
2010
©2010
Contents:
Foreword : Above the people : the meadow, garden, and cow! / Fritz Haeg -- P.S.1 becomes P.F.1 / interviews by Linda & Ed Wood, edited by Heather Peterson & Dan Wood -- The architect's farm / Meredith TenHoor -- Afterword pragmatopia? / Winy Maas -- Appendix A : Warm vegetable salad / Michael Anthony -- Appendix B : Urban chickenry : how to keep a chicken coop
Summary:
"Above the pavement - the farm! reveals the groundbreaking efforts of architecture firm WORKac and their team of more than 150 collaborators - farmers, politicians, horticulturalists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, architecture students, and artists - to create a working urban farm, hoisted 30 feet high, using industrial cardboard tubes filled with more than 50 varieties of locally grown fruits and vegetables."--Back cover.
Topic:
Urban agriculture  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1052184