Dimensions of Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780419236207 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str.

Andrew Scott

Opis

How can architecture become sustainable? How might buildings use natural forces and respond to the challenges of the environmental degradation and global climate change? What design concepts should architects use to make buildings consume less energy and resources? What is the role of technology in making architecture more environmentally responsible? How can construction become more ecological? What should the paradigm of architectural practice be as we enter the 21st century? An Internationa Design Symposium held in late 1996 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to discover the answers to these questions and others - the Dimensions of Sustainability. This illustrated text gives a comprehensive view of contemporary ideas, innovations and emerging attitudes to sustainability that emanated from the MIT symposium. Sixteen leading contributors with demonstrable track records in architectural practice, engineering and academia give their insights into the way we need to think about architecture in the future in order to work with the environment - instead of against it.

Recenzje

'The book also delves beneath developments in the fields of consumerism, finance, culture, politics, and entertainment that promise to changecities and our view of them for ever. As well as inducing vertigo, this lavish book will give you plenty to think about.' - Building

Spis treści

Introduction: Andrew Scott. Foreword: Nazli Choucri. Dematerialization, Demobilization, Adaptation: William Mitchell. Fitness, The Evolutionary Imperative: Ian McHarg. Buildings as Engines for Environmental Restoration: Bill Browning. The Evolution of a Naturally Conditioned Building Type: Alan Short. Declaration of Interdependence: William McDonough. The Need and Drive for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design: Guy Battle & Christopher McCarthy. Concept to Demolition: An Integrated Approach to Sustainability David Richards. Architecture Revisited: On Listening to Buildings: Charles Benton. Addressing the Big Building Crisis in Sustainability: Communities, Infrastructures, and Indoor Environments: Vivian Loftness. Comment: Questioning the Stand-Alone Building: Ellen Dunham-Jones. The Micro-Climate Envelope: Gilles Perruadin. The Skyscraper, Bioclimactically considered: Key Yeang. Ecology in Architecture: Spencer DeGrey. Afterword; Dwelling with the Environment: Roger Stonehouse. Index. Photographic Credits.

O autorze

MIT Scott