Description
Green Design: From Theory to Practice is a unique discussion of the issues surrounding sustainability, environmental responsibility and the use of natural resources becoming unavoidable. The book looks at what Green Design actually entails and how this can be implemented within today’s architectural practice.
This reader scrutinises the pressing questions that designers must confront today, looking at the need to comply to green accreditation systems, but also at the wider and often over-looked implications of building design. Green Design looks in-depth at the way we use buildings, distribution systems of energy, transportation, manufacturing and the food industries, and ultimately at the way we lead our lives, to evaluate and address the true meaning of Green Design and the real causes underpinning today’s environmental crisis.
The contributors each bring their own thoughts and questions on how to improve sustainable design, how important it is and how it can be enforced. These discussions are given a contemporary relevance through the inclusion of the work of contemporary architects, artists, writers and commentators.
CONTENTS
- Beatrice Rosenberg de Rothschild: Foreword
- Artur Spector: Introduction
- Ken Yeang: Strategies for Designing Green
- Mike Wells, Fleur Timmer and Alistair Carr: Understanding drivers and setting targets for Biodiversity in Urban Green Design
- Michael Pawlyn: Biomimicry
- Bert Gregory: How to think like a forest
- Stefan Behnisch: Sustainability
- David Lloyd Jones: The next generation: Transformational Buildings for teaching and learning
- Thomas Herzog: Reflections on Sustainable Architecture: Ecological Contitions and Intelligent Architecture
- Joseph Cory: The fifth element in Sustainable Design
- Khee Poh Lam: The Human Dimension in Product and Process Modelling for Green Building Design
- Nadav Malin: Materials for Green Buildings
- Steven J. Strong: The Drawing of Solar Electric Architecture
- Simon Woods: Infrastructural Engineering and Utilities
- Elma Durmisevic: Design for Disassembly of Buildings
- Simos Yannas: Education in Sustainable Enviromental Design
- Michael McDonough: From theory to practice: On Green Design
- Dominic Muren: Organ Transplants in Electronics
144 pages, color ills / 23,5 x 28,5 / English
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