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The return of nature : sustaining architecture in the face of sustainability / edited by Preston Scott Cohen and Erika Naginski.
Fine Arts Library NK1520 .R534 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable design.
- Sustainable architecture.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 230 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Summary:
- Detailed case studies and essays by practitioners, historians, and theorists present multiple viewpoints on the relations between architecture, nature, green design, sustainability, technology, and culture.
- Contents:
- Part I Organic Conceits
- 1 Design's New Catechism / Robert Levit Levit, Robert 9
- 2 Faculty of Omnipotence / Catherine Ingraham Ingraham, Catherine 20
- 3 The Raw and the Cooked / Sylvia Lavin Lavin, Sylvia 39
- Case Study I MOS Architects, afterparty, PS 1 YAP Pavilion (2009) 47
- Part II The Sublime Past
- 4 The Nature Parallel / Barry Bergdoll Bergdoll, Barry 59
- 5 Next to Nothing / K. Michael Hays Hays, K. Michael 71
- 6 Nature after Mies / Diane Lewis Lewis, Diane 79
- Case Study II Michael Bell Architecture, Gefter-Press House, Hudson Valley, NY (2007)
- Part III Sustaining Nature
- 7 On Limits / Andrew Payne Payne, Andrew 101
- 8 Eco-Pop / Mark Jarzombek Jarzombek, Mark 121
- 9 Nature, Model of Complexity / Jean-Francois Chewier Chewier, Jean-Francois 131
- Case Study III Steven Holl Architects, Sliced Porosity Block, Chengdu, China (2007-2012) 145
- Part IV The Nature of Infrastructure
- 10 Agri-tecture / Elizabeth Diller Diller, Elizabeth 161
- 11 Nature, Infrastructure and Cities / Antoine Picon Picon, Antoine 172
- Case Study IV George L. Legendre, Henderson Waves, Singapore (2004-2008) 181
- Part V Nature, Unnaturally
- 12 Block That Metaphor! / Jorge Stlvetti Stlvetti, Jorge 197
- Case Study V Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., Fanny House, Los Gatos, CA (2007-2014) 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415897884
- 0415897882
- 9780415897891
- 0415897890
- OCLC:
- 849907429
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