EMPIRE, STATE y BUILDING

Whence the accumulation of raw matter and energy of building in New York City?This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynam ics of buildings material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This book plots the material history a nd geography for one plot of land in Manhattanthe parcel of land under the Empire State Buildingover the past two hundred years. T hrough rich ...[Read more]