Includes bibliographical references

Preface / Serge Grouard -- Essays: -- Forces and form / Béatrice Simonot -- On the surface of the earth, in search of the chorographic body / Marie-Ange Brayer -- Extensions of the oikos / Frédéric Migayrou -- Datamorphis of the world / Pierre Chabard -- Biomorphic intellegence of urban landscape / Bart Lootsma -- Economic horror? / Yves Nacher -- Architecture is (now) geography / Manuel Gausa -- ArchiLab: 'earth economies' / Anand Bhatt

The third volume in this exciting series presenting young architecture and design talents, ArchiLab's Earth Buildings turns its focus to building with the land. Projects from thirty of the most innovative young practices of today--including Field Operations, Tom Leader, NOX, Servo, Vicente Guallart, and Kengo Kuma--confront and offer proposals and solutions to issues such as dwindling natural resources, land engineering, the city as ecosystem, and the sensitive development of brown sites. Presented through extensive plans, computer renderings, and photographs, buildings and large-scale schemes reveal an almost infinite array of breathtaking ideas for the future, an inspiration for a generation of designers, practitioners, and policymakers. Essays by international critics Frederic Migayrou, Bart Lootsma, Manuel Gausa, and others consider the earth's economy and suggest how contemporary architects might best and most responsibly respond to our fragile planet in a technology-driven age.