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Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a boundary, a form with an internalized point of view. Understanding architecture as environmental objects suggest a questioning of these dichotomies of separation between the symbolic landmark and the landscape background. It represents an architecture that amplifies nature, attunes to it and makes us aware of it.00Portugal Lessons: Imagining Architecture as Environmental Object takes Portugal as case study for such contextualism going beyond and understanding of design as immunization. Based on the latest research program conducted by EPFL?s Laboratory Basel (laba), it explores the topic of this architectural boundary: with whom we live with, to whom we open our house, how permeable the boundary should be. The findings are visualized in striking images, graphics and maps. The book also features proposals for architectural interventions by laba?s students, all of them tackling issues of housing.

Architecture --- Housing --- Environmental aspects. --- Portugal. --- Architecture écologique --- Analyse de site --- Recherche --- Rapport architecture-nature --- Intégration au site naturel --- Environmental aspects --- Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. --- Architecture - Environmental aspects - Portugal --- Architecture - Environmental aspects - Case studies --- Housing - Environmental aspects - Portugal