By including ecological concerns in the design process from the outset, architecture can enhance life. Author Brook Muller understands how a designer s predispositions and poetic judgement in dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems impact the "greenness" of built outcomes. "Ecology and the Architectural Imagination "offers a series of speculations on architectural possibility when ecology is embedded from conceptual phases onward, how notions of function and structure of ecosystems can inspire ideas of architectural space making and order, and how the architect s role and...

By including ecological concerns in the design process from the outset, architecture can enhance life. Author Brook Muller understands how a designer's predispositions and poetic judgement in dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems impact the "greenness" of built outcomes. Ecology and the Architectural Imagination offers a series of speculations on architectural possibility when ecology is embedded from conceptual phases onward, how notions of function and structure of ecosystems can inspire ideas of architectural space making and order, and how the architect's role and...