O'Donnell, Caroline.

Niche tactics generative relationships between architecture and site / [electronic resource] : Caroline O'Donnell. - New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xx, 234 p.) : ill.

Niche Tactics was originally published under the title: Niche Tactics: The Giraffe Model in the 101st ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings (2013): New Constellations New Ecologies, edited by Ila Berman and Ed Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.

1. Niche tactics -- 2. Case study : the 13th villa -- 3. Case study : the deformations of Francesco de Marchi -- 4. An ecological approach to the picturesque -- 5. Case study : the donkey's way : alternate paths in Le Corbusier's Plan voisin -- 6. All dressed up and some place to go -- 8. Santa Maria deformata : the predicament of precedent -- 8. Kuleshov effects -- 9. Duck jokes -- 10. Fugly -- 11. Hopeful monsters -- 12. Coda.

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