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Sustainable homes / James Grayson Trulove, with Nora Richter Greer ; foreword by Dennis Wedlick.

LIBRA NA7208 .T78 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Trulove, James Grayson
Contributor:
Greer, Nora Richter.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architecture, Domestic--United States.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture--United States--History--20th century.
Architecture.
Architecture--United States--History--21st century.
Sustainable architecture--United States.
Sustainable architecture.
dwellings.
United States.
Genre:
History
Penn Provenance:
Atkin, Tony (donor)
Physical Description:
206 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Harper Design International, ©2004.
Summary:
Sustainable Homes puts to rest the stigma that "green architecture" is unattractive and unsuitable for residential architecture. The houses shown in this volume represent design equal to or superior to most conventional houses. Each of these "eco" houses is unique. Some tread lightly on the site by nestling into the land. Others are designed to be extremely well suited to the climactic zones in which they are built. Many use materials that do no harm to the environmentmaterials that are recycled, salvaged, or harvested. The houses featured in Sustainable Homes are designed by today's top architects such as Obie Bowman, Fernau and Hartman, Hanrahan and Meyers, and Lake/Flato. They reveal how much the parameters of ecological design have expanded in just a few short years. Over two dozen individual houses are featured -- from locations as diverse as a Canadian cove to the Arizona desert, from Kansas plains to the Norwegian coast, from California bluffs to South Carolina wetlands -- each described through descriptions, photographs, plans, drawings, and schematics.
Contents:
Kutcher residence
Hester/McNally residence
Arroyo house
Sonoma coast house
Summer house
West Marin house
MacKenzie house
Gordon house
Alves residence
Johnson/Jones residence
Oregon coast house
Palmer/Rose house
Mackie house
Danielson cottage
Tennis house
Lakeside residence
Howard house
Low compound
Pins sur mer
Villa Eila
Mouney house
Hansen residence
South Texas ranch house
Tin roof house
McDevitt house
Yost house.
Notes:
Originally published under the title Hot dirt, cool straw in 2001.
ISBN:
0060594462
9780060594466
OCLC:
55754298

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