Beyond sustainable : architecture's evolving environments of habitation / Ryan Ludwig.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Beyond Sustainable discusses the relation between human evolution and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change. This volume accepts that human-beings have reached a moment beyond climatological and ecological crisis. It asks not, how we resolve the crisis, but rather, how can we cope with, or adapt to, the irreversible changes in the earth-system by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world-ecology. Through an examination of numerous historical and contemporary projects of architecture and art, as well as considering observations in philosophy, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, neurobiology and psychology, this book reimagines architecture capable of influencing and impacting who we are, how we live, what we feel, and even how we evolve. Beyond Sustainable provides students and academics a single comprehensive overview of this architectural reconceptualization, which is grounded in an inclusive and ecocentric understanding of architecture"--