Green 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.--From publisher description
History
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 23 cm.
9783836503211, 3836503212
228583267
Nature's revenge : a brief survey of 20th-century green history
Eco-philosophy and early green history
Environmental architecture today
Integration of architecture and landscape
"Borrowed from nature" : organic forms and cosmic symbolism
Architecture in its cultural context
Translating technology into art
Green design research and technological innovations
Building a bridge to the common client
The sociological aspects of green architecture : urbanism
Prophetic visions for the future
Turning over a new leaf
Originally published: 2000