Newly Released: Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic by Leena Cho and Matthew Jull
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Editors: Leena Cho, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture &
Matthew Jull, Associate Professor of Architecture
December 2023
Routledge
As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socio-environmental transformations.
The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether, the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban, architecture, and landscape systems, and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic.
...the Arctic is a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds and compels designers to reflect on the ways in which cities have been assembled and communities organized.
Leena Cho and Matthew Jull, editors of Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic
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Editors
Leena Cho is an Associate Professor of Landscape at the at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, co-director of Arctic Design Group (ADG), and co-principal of the design practice Kutonotuk. Her research centers on material agencies, urban landscapes, and scientific sites in the Arctic environments.
Matthew Jull, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, co-director of Arctic Design Group (ADG), and co-principal of the design practice Kutonotuk. Merging backgrounds in both architecture and as a research scientist in geophysics, his work examines the design of cities and buildings in extreme environments.
Contributors
Myriam Blais, Université Laval, Quebéc
Julia Christensen, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Aaron Cooke, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Fairbanks
Julia Decker, Anchorage Museum
Bert De Jonghe, Transpolar Studio
Benjamin DiNapoli, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Ali Fard, University of Virginia
Roman Federov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Élisa Gouin, Université Laval, Quebéc
Peter Hemmersam, Oslo School of Architecture
Vera Kuklina, George Washington University
Janike Kampevold, Professor of Landscape Theory
Tom Marsik, University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus //
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Fairbanks
Torrill Nyseth, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
Elena Rasputina, Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg Sizov, Russion Academy of Sciences
Geneviève Vachon, Université Laval, Quebéc
Critic's Review
A must-read volume for those interested in
contemporary urbanism.
Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
