Green Architecture (Hardcover, Taschen's 25th anniversary ed)

When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaudi and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones.James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, Francois Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.

General

Imprint:	Taschen
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	August 2008
Editors:	Philip Jodidio
Dimensions:	173 x 217 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	Taschen's 25th anniversary ed
ISBN-13:	978-3-8365-0321-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Categorized Speciality Shops > Taschen - Art & Photography
LSN:	3-8365-0321-2
Barcode:	9783836503211

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