Description
The purpose of this book is to reveal, explore and further the debate on the aesthetic potentials of sustainable architecture and its practice. This book opens a new area of scholarship and discourse in the design and production of sustainable architecture, one that is based in aesthetics. The chapters in this book have been compiled from architects and scholars working in diverse research and practice areas in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. While they approach the subject matter from different angles, the chapters of the book help clarify the key principles behind environmental concerns and sustainability in architecture. At its very core, Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture underlines the connection that exists between our approach to the environment and sustainability on one hand, and our approach to certain aesthetic propositions and practices on the other.
CONTENTS
- Glen Hill: The Aesthetics of Architectural Consuption
- Mathias Sauerbruch, Luisa Hutton: What does Sutainability look like?
- Ralph L. Knowles: Solar Aesthetic
- Keith Bothwell: The Architecture of Passively Tempered Environment
- John Brennan: Qualitative and Quantitative Traditions in Sustainable Design
- Kenneth Frampton: Urbanization and Discontents: Megaform and Sustainability
- Daniel Jauslin: Landscape Aesthetics for Sustainable Architecture
- Sang Lee, Stefanie Holzheu: Building Envelope as Surface
- Nezar Al Sayyad, Gabriel Arboleda: The Sustainable Indigenous Vernacular: Interrogating a Myth
- Vinayak Bharne: The Qanats in Yadz: The Dilemmas of Sustainability and Conservation
- Halard N. Røstvik: The Vernacular, the Iconic and the Fake
- Kengo Kuma: Natural Architecture
- Minna Sunikka-Blank: The Concept and Aestetics of Sustainable Building in Japan
- Marie Antoinette Glasser: Durability in Housing – The Aesthetics of the Ordinary
- Elisabetta Pero: Eviromental Issues as Context
- Matthew Skjonsberg: Magic, Inc. – Reframing the City
- Giancarlo Magnone, Patrick Teuffel: Constructing Sensuous Ecologies: Beyond the Energy Efficiency and Zero-Carbon Argument
- Luca Finocchiaro, Anne Grete Hestnes: Symbiosis and Mimesis in Built Environment
- David Briggs: Aesthetic Potentials in an Open Network Inventory System
316 page, b&w ills / 17 x 24 cm/ English
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