A new book featuring recent work from DS13 has been published by AA Publications. Edited by Steve Hardy, with essays by Steve Hardy, Andrei Martin, Sandra Morris, Marco Poletto, Anne Save de Beaurecueil with Franklin Lee.

In 2006 and 2007 the Environmental, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster at the Architectural Association sponsored the Environmental Tectonics competition. For the compilation of the book the curators sought projects that redefined common environmental parameters and explored design potential – while formulating critical and informed responses to the relation between aesthetics, ethics, tectonics and qualitative environments. The competition offered a unique opportunity to exhibit and publish relevant and important new projects as well as to understand current strands of investigation within this realm. Throughout, the focus of the publication is on ideas – ideas arising from an exploration of the complex variables surrounding environmental, sustainable and climatic design. The collected work looks beyond the typical carbon conservation solutions and instead finds resonance in projects that celebrate, organize and uncover new potentials in environmental design.

A few excerpts from the book are posted on:

www.aaees.net

The book is available through our own bookstore.