The Green Braid (eBook, ePUB)

Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity
Redaktion: Tanzer, Kim; Longoria, Rafael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134120574
• Artikelnr.: 38248682

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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