This book by artist, diver, and editor-in-chief of an underwater magazine Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books dedicated to the planet sea. It is a knowledge-rich overview, created from facts and experiences, of three main themes that have never been described in context. Marine architectures from both the Pacific and Atlantic regions have now moved from vision to reality. Whether it is a sail-shaped architecture in Nouméa or a whale-shaped one in the Arctic region. Special attention is paid by Prof. Claus to post-disaster architecture. The book will encourage young readers to design metabolic buildings themselves.
That the seascape has also become a fluid studio for visual artists may come as a surprise. The works of art, some of which the author has experienced first-hand, have intertwined with an ecological, sustainable way of working. And this is also true to a special degree for the sound artists. They realize their sonic worlds with recordings from the sounding world underwater, a concert hall of hitherto unknown dimensions. The author’s experience as a professor of media art with students flows into the description of multimedia or media-related ocean installations. Here the book becomes a stimulus for realizing one’s own experiences.
Author(s): Juergen Claus
Publisher: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 195
City: Singapore
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction
1. Research in Ocean Architecture
1.1 We Must Approach the Seas with Imagination
1.2 The Genesis of a Floating Civilization
1.3 Paul Maymont: An Urbanist Between Continents
1.4 The Missing Education of a Marine Architect: A Talk with Jean-Michel Cousteau
1.5 Imagining Living Underwater: Dialogue with Architect Yona Friedman
1.6 The Metabolism Goes Seaward
1.7 Kiyonori Kikutake: Teach Us How to Survive
1.8 The Threats of a Floating Architecture or Notes About Post-Disaster Architecture
1.9 Tokyo Bay Relaunched: 1959 to 2045
1.10 Building with Sea Minerals: Wolf Hilbertz
1.11 Jacques Rougerie: Portrait of an Oceanaute
1.12 Renzo Piano Builds with the Pacific Ocean: The J. M. Tjibaou Cultural Center on Nouméa
1.13 Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta, and the Energy of Building
1.14 Ocean Renewable Energies
1.15 The Power of Dorte Mandrup: Whale Architecture
1.16 The Louvre at the Sea: Jean Nouvel Builds a Meta-universe
2. Expansions of Visual Art into the Ocean
2.1 Visual Art in the Biosphere
2.2 Seascapes on the Canvas
2.3 A Future Workshop of the Sea: Imagined
2.4 Butterflies in the Pacific Ocean: Doug Aitken
2.5 Art in the Sea Versus Critical Zones: Jason DeCaires Taylor
2.6 Liquid Asia Art. Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba and a Poem to the Pacific
2.7 The Molecules of Our New Water. An Interlude About Media
2.8 Sculptures Recovered: The New Underwater Archaeology. Imagination is the Trigger
2.9 Tentacular Thinking
2.10 Robertina Šebjanič: AquA(l)formings—Interweaving the Subaqueous
2.11 Toward a Nautical Research: A Dialogue with Peter Weibel—The Binary Code has Replaced Celestial Navigation
3. Soundscapes from the Ocean
3.1 Toward an Ecology of Marine Sounds
3.2 For the Repertoire of Terms
3.3 La Mer: Out of Debussy
3.4 The Global Rearmament: The Growth of Machines or the Renewal of Music by Noises
3.5 Excerpts from Jürgen Claus: The Voice of the Ocean. Radio Feature, 1979
3.6 A Bell Tower Underwater
3.7 Murray Schafer and the New Orchestra of the Sound Environment
3.8 A Foray into the Sound Ocean
3.9 An Artistic Noise Aquarium: Victoria Vesna
3.10 Maritimes Rites: Alvin Curran
3.11 Yana Winderen: The Sonic Unconscious
3.12 Melt Me into the Ocean: Yolande Harris
3.13 The Sea is Given a Voice
Suggested Reference Books and A-V Materials
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