Publications

Routledge / 2017 / Author

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Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change.  This volume accepts that human-beings have reached a moment beyond climatological and ecological crisis. It asks not how we resolve the crisis but, rather, how we can cope with, or adapt to, the irreversible changes in the earth-system by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world-ecology. Through an examination of numerous historical and contemporary projects of architecture and art, as well as observations in philosophy, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, neurobiology and psychology, this book reimagines architecture capable of influencing and impacting who we are, how we live, what we feel and even how we evolve.  Beyond Sustainable provides students and academics with a single comprehensive overview of this architectural reconceptualization, which is grounded in an ecologically inclusive and co-productive understanding of architecture.

“Beyond Sustainable situates, with great acuity, architecture’s current position in relation to elemental shifts in earth systems. Ludwig probes theories and histories of technology, economics, space and humanism to articulate how we might identify architecture and ourselves as integral, dynamic, parts of a “live-in-the-world ecology.” The book is succinct yet rich and Ludwig is an excellent writer, both principled and persuasive.”
–Catherine Ingraham, Ph.D. Author of Architecture the Burdens of Linearity and Architecture, Animal, Human

Thresholds (Issue 42) / Human / The MIT Press / 2014 / Author

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This essay speculates on architecture’s potential role as a producer of environments, capable of participating in the development of biological ‘form’ through the induction of physiological effects that engage with the human body and promote adaptability towards future evolutionary change.

Actar Publishers / 2009 / Co-Editor

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This book “provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility….to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially. Function and form, considered together in architecture, stand in opposition to the dualism which defined our approach to the built environment throughout the twentieth century.” – Actar Publishers

Moinopolis (Issue 1) / Living In the Spatial Shift / 2013 / Author

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This essay explores our understanding of the development of form in both material, social and biological systems, and the architect’s abilities to conceive, design and fabricate work(s). Focusing on new developmental models of form in biology the essay concludes that architectural responses may foster outcomes beyond techniques of image production and instead cultivate a relational concept of form.