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The Greening of Architecture - A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Greening of Architecture - A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design (Paperback, New Ed)
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Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as
it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity
of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half
century. This text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical
history and analysis of the greening of architecture through
accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by
buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the
progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it
illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through
alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines
different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural
and climatic contexts. The book is divided into seven chapters:
with an overview of the environmental issues and the nature of
green architecture in response to them, followed by an historic
perspective of the pioneering evolution of green technology and
architectural integration over the past five decades, and finally,
providing the intransigent and culturally pervasive current
examples within a wide range of geographic territories. The
greening of architecture is seen as an evolutionary process that is
informed by significant world events, climate change, environmental
theories, movements in architecture, technological innovations, and
seminal works in architecture and planning throughout each decade
over the past fifty years. This time period is bounded on one end
by the awareness of environmental problems beginning in the 1960's,
the influential texts by Rachel Carson, E.F. Schumacher,
Buckminster Fuller and Steward Brand, and the impact of the OPEC
Oil Embargo of 1973, and on the other end the pervasiveness of the
necessary greening of architecture that includes, systemic reforms
in architectural and urban design, land use planning,
transportation, agriculture, and energy production found in the
2000's. The greening process moves from remediation to holistic
models of architecture. Geographical landscapes give a global
account of the greening process where some examples are parallel
and sympathetic, and others are in clear contrast to one another
with very individuated approaches. Certain events, like the Rio
Summit in 1992 and Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and themes, such as the
Hannover Principles in 2000, provide a dynamic ideological critique
as well as a formal and technical discussion of the embodied and
accumulative content of greening principles in architecture.
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