The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come

In The Air from Other Planets SeanÊLallyÊintroduces the readerÊto an architecture produced by designing the energy withinÊour environment ( electromagnetic thermodynamic acoustic andÊchemical ). This architecture exchanges the walls and shells weÊhave assumed to be the only type of attainable architectureÊfor a range of material energies that develops its own shapesÊaesthetics organizational systems and social experiences.ÊThe book is a story in which energy emerges as more than whatÊfills the interior of a building or reflects off its outer walls.ÊInstead energy becomes its own enterprise for design innovation:Êit becomes the architecture itself.The Air from Other Planets is a book nostalgic for the futureÊrooted in the belief that the architect's greatest attributes lie notÊonly in harnessing the latest technologies and advancements inÊbuilding materials but also in exercising our imaginations throughÊspeculation and the projections of worlds and environments yetÊto exist. The book s