Green Architecture
Various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture
When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones.
James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, François Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.
About the editor:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Álvaro Siza. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.
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Green Architecture
Jodidio, Philip (ED)
Wines, James Flexicover, 19.6 x 24.6 cm (7.7 x 9.7 in.), 240 pages $ 19.99 |
- Reviews (8 items)
An excellent global approach concerning today's increasing environnemental problems and the crucial role architects and architecture must play in the solutions. A must! There is a war at hand....
Alejandro Montero, Canada
Alejandro Montero, Canada
- Clippings (4 items)
Architecture Now! Green Architecture
sirreadalot.org, United States, July 01, 2009
sirreadalot.org, United States, July 01, 2009
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