EVolo’s towering ‘Skyscrapers’ book, which quickly sold out, isnow available for special orderuntil May 31st. If you’re an aficionado of futurism in building design, then this decisive book on one of the environment’s largest scale human interfaces — the skyscraper — is a must for your collection. EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS spans six chapters, with a hefty 1,224 pages, and contains a selection of 300 of the best projects from their annual skyscaper competition.
The book is broken in to six sections which broadly cover the design missions of various proposals including: Technological Advances, Ecological Urbanism, New Frontiers, Social Solutions, Morphotectonic Aesthetics, and Urban Theories and Strategies. Each chapter is filled with often beautiful, and sometimesjarring ideasand images of what our world could look like. The depth and breadth of the book is like a reference manual to the future, where anything can seemingly happen. But its the level of effort the submissions took to re-visualize the built environment that surprised me.
The team’s description of the buildings is set above the project boards, which helps in interpreting the kaleidoscope of designs. Often, text within the boards further explain the skyscraper’s design elements and purpose. It can be easy getting lost in the nuances of the proposals, which are typically rendered in great detail.
These project proposals are novel approaches to solve some of mankind’s most vexing problems. They often are spilling over with designs which unfold and grow, inflate or inject, absorb and evolve. The Ecological Urbanism section has many projects that clean the air or water, provide vertical gardens and habitat, or fuel a society with clean energy. In fact, most of the projects chosen for the book have environmentally positive attributes at their core.
The book sells for $120 and is available for special order only until May 31, 2012, so this might be your last chance to get the definitive volume on the future of the skyscaper.
+ EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS Limited Edition Book
