The emerald city and other essays on the architectural imagination /
Daniel Willis.
- xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Heavy, not dead -- Architecture as medicine -- The valor of iron : an introduction to the material imagination -- The weight of architecture -- The emerald city : a study of substance and place -- Active architecture from Christo to Christmas trees -- Vernacular architecture and the economics of dwelling -- Gendered words, neutered spaces, and the trouble with new urbanism -- The contradictions underlying the profession of architecture -- Seven strategies for making architecture in the twenty-first century -- The work of architecture in the age of efficient production -- The impact of the computer on architectural practice. Robert Harbison -- Introduction: