Lo-TEK design by radical indegenism /

• Main Author: Watson, Julia (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Davis, Wade (συγγραφέας προλόγου.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cologne : Taschen, c2020.
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική, Λαϊκή; Αρχιτεκτονική > Περιβαλλοντικές απόψεις; Βιοκλιματική αρχιτεκτονική

"Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realiz...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Wade Davis
• Introduction: The mythology of technology
• Waru Waru agricultural terraces of the Inca, Peru
• Jingkieng Dieng Jri living root bridges of the Khasis, India
• Palayan rice terraces of the Ifugao, Philippines
• Subak rice terraces of the Subak, Bali
• Milpa forest gardens of the Maya, Mexico
• Kihamba forest gardens of the Chagga, Tanzania
• Surangam underground aqueducts of the Malayali, India
• Waitiwina dams of the Enawenê-nawê, Brazil
• Apete forest islands of the Kayapó, Brazil
• Waffle gardens of the Zuni, New Mexico
• Boma corrals of the Maasai, Kenya
• Qanat underground aqueducts of the Persians, Iran
• Anok corrals of the Ngisonyaka Turkana, Kenya
• Torta reed floating islands of the Uros, Peru
• Al-Tahla floating islands of the Ma'dan, Iraq
• Bheri wastewater aquaculture of the Bengalese, India
• Acadja aquaculture of the Tofinu, Benin
• Sawah Tambak rice-fish aquaculture of the Javanese, Indonesia
• Conclusion: constructing a new mythology.