The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

ISBN-13: 9780415414999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 400 str.

Kim Tanzer;Rafael Longoria;Kim Tanzer

Opis

This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined with design projects that highlight issues holistically, they promote an understanding of the principles of sustainability and further the integration of sustainable methods into architectural projects.

Using essays that alternately revise and clarify twentieth century architectural thinking, The Green Braid places sustainability at the centre of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices, and therefore their architectural production, in a sustainable manner.

Recenzje

'With a broad definition of sustainability in mind, the book delves into how architectural designs can be situated at the crossroads of ecology, economy and equity ... The book is rich with examples and case studies that are informative and intriguing.' – Cities

Spis treści

Part 1: The Green Braid: Networked Ways of Knowing 1. The Green Braid: Networked Ways of Knowing 2. Architecture, Ecology Design and Human Ecology  3. A New Social Contract: Equity and Sustainable Development  4. Economic Sustainability in the Post-Industrial Landscape  5. Models, Lists and the Evolution of Sustainable Architecture  Part 2: Meta-Discourses in Pedagogy and Practice  6. Introduction  7. Cyborg Theories and Situated Knowledges: Some Speculations on a Cultural Approach to Technology  8. We Are No[w here]: A Social Critique of Contemporary Theory  9. The Hidden Influence of Historical Scholarship on Design  10. Culture and the Recalibration of First Ring Suburbs  11. Portable Construction Training Center  12. One Week, Eight Hours  Part 3: Phenomena and Technology  13. Introduction  14. From l’Air Exact to l’Aérateur: Ventilation and its Evolution in the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier  15. Unhealthy Energy Conservation Practices  16. Good-Bye Willis Carrier 17. The Compass House  18. Scupper Houses or the Dogtrot House and the Shotgun House Reconsidered  19. An Affordable, Sustainable House  20. Phenomenal Surface: Fog House  Part 4: Building Practices  21. Introduction  22. Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, Architect, and the Development of Engineered Lumber  23. Terunobu Fujimori: Working with Japan’s Small Production Facilities  24. Making Smartwrap: From Parts to Pixels  25. Quilting with Glass, Cedar and Fir: A Workshop and Studio in Rossland, BC and Navy Demonstration Project  26. Modernism Redux: a Study in Light, Surface, and Volume  27. Solar Sails: An Installation  Part 5: Settlement Patterns  28. Introduction  29. Economy=Ecology: A Scenario for Chicago’s Lake Calumet  30. Sarajevo: Ecological Reconstruction after the ‘Urbicide’  31. The Suburban Critique at Mid-Century: A Case Study  32. I-10 The Gulf Coast States/Mall Housing  33. Community Redevelopment for a Small Town in Florida and Drifting Urbanism  34. The Role of Infrastructure in the Production of Public Spaces for the City of Miami  Part 6: The Shared Realm  35. Introduction  36. Architectural Intervention and the Post-Colonial Era: The Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop  37. History, Tradition, and Modernity: Urbanism and Cultural Change in Chanderi, India  38. Global Constructions, Or Why Guadalajara wants a Home Depot while Los Angeles Wants Construction Workers  39. A Raptor Enclosure for the Zuni Pueblo  40. Garden of Time; Landscape of Change: Women Suffrage Memorial St. Paul, Minnesota  41. Unmasking Urban Traces

O autorze

Kim Tanzer is Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida and also maintains an architectural practice in Gainsville.

Rafael Longoria is Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston and a principal of Longoria/Peters, a Houston-based architecture and urban design firm.