Ecological Architecture: A Critical History - Hardcover

James Steele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500342105 ISBN 13: 9780500342107

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2005

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: October 2005 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson The great untold story of the architectural history of the past century: the movement toward an ecological approach to building.In a world increasingly awake to is environmental damage. the visionaries of the past who championed an environmentally sane architecture are vindicated. Yesterday's eccentricities are today's legal requirements. and every architect has an obligation to the environment as well as to his or her client.This groundeaking book charts the rise of this new consciousness. assessing the situation now. and identifying future directions. After an introduction to the terminology of ecological architecture - comparing the use of green and sustainable as variants - the book is organized into three parts. - Part One identifies recurring themes in ecological architecture. including energy e...

About this title

Product Description:

Ecological Architecture charts the ascendancy of an ecological approach to building over the past century, assessing as it does so the situation as it stands today, and identifying where we might go next. As a decisive step in the rewriting of the history of modern architecture, this book will be essential reading for practitioners and students of architecture: as an urgent wake-up call concerning the state of our built environment, it will be of interest to everyone with a stake in the future of our planet.

About the Author:

James Steele is Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. As a teacher and practising architect, he has pioneered an ecological approach and, among his publications, are volumes on important non-Western practitioners, including Hassan Fathy, Balkrishna Doshi and Rasem Badran.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0500342105
• ISBN 13: 9780500342107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272