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Soupergreen! : souped-up green architecture / edited by Doug Jackson ; with projects and essays by Doug Jackson, Wes Jones, Marc Neveu, Aryan Crawford Omar, Steven Purvis, Randolph Ruiz, Mohamed Sharif, SCI-Arc + Caltech ; and with a foreword by Sanford Kwinter.
Fine Arts Library NA2542.36 .S67 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kwinter, Sanford, author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable architecture.
- Sustainable design.
- Architecture--Environmental aspects.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Souped-up green architecture
- Supergreen
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Actar Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "SOUPERgreen!--Souped Up Green Architecture features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the prevailing approach to "green" architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis." -- From back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword : Charismatic fauna / Sanford Kwinter
- Introduction : SOUPERgreen! / Doug Jackson
- CHIP (Compact Hyper-Insulated Prototype) / SCI-Arc + Caltech
- DALE (Dynamic Augmented Living Environment) / SCI-Arc + Caltech
- The answer concerning technology / Wes Jones
- LAelovTOD (Los Angeles ELOV-based Transit Oriented Development) / Wes Jones
- Eat me (Aquaponic house) / Steven Purvis
- 'STEAD (Sustainable Technology Experimental Agricultural Dwelling) / Randolph Ruiz
- Souper useless / Marc Neveu
- Wind house / Aryan Crawford Omar
- Uneasy green / Doug Jackson
- Wild thing / Doug Jackson
- The elementals / Doug Jackson
- Kind of just like heaven / Mohamed Sharif.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9781940291536
- 1940291534
- OCLC:
- 952207671
- Publisher Number:
- 99981235200
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