Design on the edge : the making of a high-performance building / David W. Orr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, David W., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Ohio--Oberlin--History.

Buildings.

Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio).

Oberlin College--Buildings.

Oberlin College.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 - A Meditation on Building

2 - Origins of Ecological Design

3 - The Design Revolution: Notes for Practitioners

4 - Origins

5 - The Building

6 - Landscape: Monologue to Dialogue

7 - The Gift Must Move: Reflections on Costs,Economics, Giving, and Receiving

8 - The Politics of Institutional Change

9 - Planning to Learn: A Digression onInstitutional Learning

10 - The Political EconomyPostpetroleum World

11 - The Origins of the Ideas

12 - The Green Campus Movement

13 - The Rest of the Story

Appendix A: Oberlin College Environmental Policy

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-267) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09802-0

9786612098024

0-262-28106-6

1-4294-1000-0

OCLC:

74175153

Publisher Number:

9780262151177