ABSTRACT
The paper proposes to describe buildings as patches of landscape, drawing inspiration from authors such as A. Tsing and S. Cubitt. While the notions of patch, assemblage, and coordination, rooted in landscape ecology, provide a school of thought to understand buildings as “multi-sited, multi-scalar, and more-than-human”, anecdotalism, with its interest in addressing how high-resolution events could promote the comprehension of larger-scale issues, facilitates the tracing of the multiple storylines that intersect in architecture. In response, representational questions arise through processes of entangled maps, here addressed as ecographies, to propose novel practices of registration necessary to understand the entanglement of our discipline with the current climate crisis. To discuss the operativity of these concepts and tools, Ecolonia, a housing development in Alphen aan den Rijn (NL), is taken as an example to test how mapping through “patchy epistemics” and “anecdotal evidence” could radically transform how we describe buildings.
