Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles - Image 1

£45.00

Actar Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles

Name: Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles
Brand: Actar
Price: 45.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Criticism & Theory

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£45 today · previous high £45 · all-time low £36

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 160 days • 160 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 160 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £36 (123 days, 76.9%)

Price range: £36 - £45

Price levels: 3 different prices over 160 days

Description

How can we design the architecture of metabolism? How can architecture redefine resources, produce nutrients and contribute to regenerate land and protect communities at risk? Building Metabolism aims to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material recycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes. This book, stemming from the expanded work produced for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale—themed EDIBLE and curated by the authors—reimagines the “home” on both domestic and planetary scales as a digestive system, processing human output in its various forms and converting it into actionable resources. This portrayal of the “home” urges readers to look at resources in a visceral way; via the raw ecologies of our bodies and the understanding that the social problems related to climate justice are not simply statistical, abstract, and disembodied. Instead, they are intertwined with our own production and living processes, and they are landed on bodies: on the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. Envisioning an architecture that produces resources, digests its waste, and decomposes itself, Building Metabolism challenges the extractive, consumptive, and contaminating logics of the built environment. Moving beyond an understanding of metabolism as a collection of inhabitable machines—which is a reading that carries the heavy burden of modernism—the book explores metabolism as patterns of energy and material generation and distribution within a multiverse. This reality does not tolerate traditional dichotomies of nature and artifice, humans and non-humans, resource, and waste; rather, it urges the emergence of a novel network of life and death and alternative forms of matter, including non-human agents, but also technological and cultural others. Building Metabolism aims to explore the potential of all natural and technological expressions to mitigate the contaminating and extracting nature of our desires and protocols related to the production of the built environment. With Contributions of Lydia Kallipoliti, Areti Markopoulou, Andrés Jaque, Mark Wigley, Barbara Penner, Design Earth, Lateral Office, and Feifei Zhou among others.

Product Specifications

Brand: Actar
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 1638401802
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Criticism & Theory
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 January 2026
Listed Since: 16 April 2025

Barcode

No barcode data available

Actar Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Beyond Utopia: Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia

Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks

Jan Kaplicky -- For the Future and For Beauty

Architecture and Urbanism: A Smart Outlook: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Architecture and Urban Planning, Cairo, Egypt

Simone Micheli: Architecture since 1990

Human Metabolism: A Regulatory Perspective, 4th Edition

Urban Interstices Routledge - Aesthetics and Politics of Space

Routledge - The Territories of Identity: Architecture Book

Springer - Sustainability in the Built Environment Book

The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism

The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change: 3 (Environmental History, 3)

Materiality and Architecture

Metabiology: Non-standard Models, General Semantics and Natural Evolution: 50 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 50)

The Power of Design and Convergence of AI

Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis: Interactions of innovations in transport, information, production and organizations (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy)

The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between (Culture of Cities Series, 7)

Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd Edition (P/L CUSTOM SCORING SURVEY)

Routledge Religion, Materialism and Ecology - Academic Book

Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies

Conflicts and New Departures in World Society: World Society Studies: 003

Intelligent Techniques and Applications in Science and Technology: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovations in Modern Science ... and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, 12)

Intelligent Techniques and Applications in Science and Technology: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovations in Modern Science ... and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, 12)

Smart Energy in the Smart City: Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future (Green Energy and Technology)