La Terre est une architecture

“The Earth trembles, cracks, collapses, belches, storms, swirls, its skin sweats or dries out, heats up or cools down, swarms or depopulates. Faced with the incessant moods of their environment, living beings have no choice but to design their worlds.” The earth is an architecture, since the dawn of time man has shaped it in his own image, both concretely and in his imagination. The constant increase in the world’s population has had, and continues to have, a considerable impact on the very structure of the blue planet. Through this book, the international architecture and urban design agency TVK takes us on an intercontinental epic tracing the history of terrestrial infrastructures, thus attempting to “grasp the complexity and paradoxical nature of the contemporary situation on Earth.”