From Library Journal
Washington possesses a rich architectural heritage that spans well
over two centuries. This guidebook, initially commissioned by the
Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects (AIA) in 1965 and last updated in 1974, provides a
welcome introduction to the architecture of the nation's capital.
Organized into 17 walking tours, over 450 structures are concisely
described and professionally photographed. Some of the city's newer,
mediocre buildings are given more attention than they deserve; the
city's unfortunate penchant for constructing new buildings behind
historic facades receives scant criticism; there are no photographs
of building interiors; and buildings located outside of the
district's boundaries (such as Dulles Airport) have been excluded
from this edition. Despite these quibbles, this is a significant
reference tool for Washingtonians that fills a major void.
H. Ward Jandl, National Park Svc., Washington, D.C. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
Architecture in a Climate of Change
by Peter Smith (Author)
From the Publisher
He
calls for changes in the way we build. For change to be widely
accepted there have to be convincing reasons why long established
practices should be replaced. In the first part of the book he sets
out those reasons by arguing that there is convincing evidence that
climate changes now under way are primarily due to human activity in
releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Buildings are
particularly implicated in this process and so it is appropriate
that the design and construction process should be a prime target in
the war against catastrophic climate change. The book is designed to
promote a creative partnership between the professions to produce
buildings which achieve optimum conditions for their inhabitants
whilst making minimum demands on fossil based energy. Peter Smith
has written extensively on the subject and is well known in the
field. He is responsible for introducing the compulsory sustainable
element of the course in the UK. He is Chairman of the RIBA
Environment and Energy Committee, the RIBA Sustainable Features
Committee and Vice Chairman of the Sustainable Development
Committee.
Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker, The
Miami's Maverick Modernist by
Randolph C. Henning
The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker is Randolph Henning’s
overview of the life work of this modernist master. It features
sixty-nine of the more than five hundred residential and commercial
structures Parker created between 1942 and 2001. The descriptions
are accompanied by nearly 400 color photographs, more than a third
of which are vintage images from renowned photographer Ezra Stoller.
Alfred Browning Parker is one of the twentieth century’s most famous
Florida-based architects. A principal leader of the “Coconut Grove
School” of tropical organic architecture, he is arguably the most
renowned and honored architect in the history of Florida
architecture, and his influence has been felt throughout the United
States and the Caribbean.
Bruno Stagno:
An Architect in the Tropics
Essays by Alexander
Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre, Ken Yeang
In this
compilation of Bruno Stagno's experience as an Architect ,
he discusses his experience of tropical living and the
Avant-garde and traditional architectural tendency.
Classic Cracker
Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture By Ronald W. Haase
In this visually delightful book, laced with
quotations from one of the best chroniclers of Florida Cracker Life,
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ronald Haase takes us on an intimate tour
of the utilitarian wooden structures constructed by early settlers
in North Florida.
Community by Design
New
Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities By Kenneth B. Hall and Gerald A.
Porterfield
From
the Back Cover
Community is not an accumulation of buildings with interstate
access, neighborhood not a housing project convenient to shopping.
Everyone knows what suburban sprawl looks like and the problems is
creates. This book knows answers. The First Step to Communities that
Work -Create maximum livability, cohesiveness, and style in
developments outside cities. In these pages, you’ll find
recommendations for creating true neighborhoods within the context
of the existing suburban landscape—in an illustrated, step-by-step,
case-study format.
Cradle
to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things By William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Environmentalists are normally the last people to be called
shortsighted, yet that's essentially what architect McDonough and
chemist Braungart contend in this clarion call for a new kind of
ecological consciousness. The authors are partners in an industrial
design firm that devises environmentally sound buildings, equipment
and products. They argue that conventional, expensive eco-efficiency
measures things like recycling or emissions reduction are inadequate
for protecting the long-term health of the planet. Our industrial
products are simply not designed with environmental safety in mind;
there's no way to reclaim the natural resources they use or fully
prevent ecosystem damage, and mitigating the damage is at best a
stop-gap measure. What the authors propose in this clear, accessible
manifesto is a new approach they've dubbed "eco-effectiveness":
designing from the ground up for both eco-safety and cost
efficiency. They cite examples from their own work, like rooftops
covered with soil and plants that serve as natural insulation;
nontoxic dyes and fabrics; their current overhaul of Ford's
legendary River Rouge factory; and the book itself, which will be
printed on a synthetic "paper" that doesn't use trees. Because
profitability is a requirement of the designs, the thinking goes,
they appeal to business owners and obviate the need for regulatory
apparatus. These shimmery visions can sound too good to be true, and
the book is sometimes frustratingly short on specifics, particularly
when it comes to questions of public policy and the political
interests that might oppose widespread implementation of these
designs. Still, the authors' original concepts are an inspiring
reminder that humans are capable of much more elegant environmental
solutions than the ones we've settled for in the last half-century.
(Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information
Creating Sustainable
Cities (Schumacher Briefing) by Herbert Girardet
Modern cities make a huge impact on their environments, but if they
were to dramatically reduce their consumption of resources and
energy, they would still prosper. Waste recycling can reduce urban
use of resources whilst creating many new jobs; new materials and
architectural designs can greatly improve the environmental
performance of urban buildings. Cities can also adopt imaginative
new approaches to transport planning and management, and the use of
urban space. We can dramatically improve the experience of urban
life by the creation of new urban villages, reducing the peoples'
desire to escape from the pressures of city life.
How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our
cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the
new millennium--places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that
are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This
Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.
Design
for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical
Solutions
By Janis Birkeland
With radical and innovative design
solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements
that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify
air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at
lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts
across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between
social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary
approach to environmental and social problem-solving.
This sourcebook is useful for
teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management
and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse
perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for
Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based
on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost
designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing
design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture,
and energy and resource management
Design Like You Give a
Damn Architectural Responses
to Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity
(Author), Kate Stohr (Editor), Cameron Sinclair (Editor)
Review San Francisco Chronicle : Heavy on context and images, light
on celebrity names, Design Like You Give a Damn is a bracing
reminder that there's more to architecture than museums and posh
private homes. Instead,
the founders of the group Architecture for Humanity round up 77
nimble solutions to real-life problems: There are fiberglass domes
for the homeless of Los Angeles, a schoolhouse in Burkina Faso with
an arced steel roof that insulates the clay brick classrooms below
-- even a water pump in South Africa that is powered by children
playing on a merry-go-round. Truly inspirational.
In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by
storm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of
landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological
design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion
of mankind's place in nature and nature's place in mankind within
the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic
reviewer as a "user's manual for our world," Design With Nature
offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship
between the built environment and nature. In so doing, it provides
nothing less than the scientific, technical, and philosophical
foundations for a mature civilization that will, as Lewis Mumford
ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition,
"replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized,
explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and
disappearing before our eyes."
Designing Sustainable Communities
Learning from Village Homes By Judy Corbett and Michael Corbett
The movement toward creating more sustainable
communities has been growing for decades, and in recent years has
gained new prominence with the increasing visibility of planning
approaches such as the New Urbanism. Yet there are few examples of
successful and time-tested sustainable communities.
Village Homes outside of Davis, California
offers one such example. Built between 1975 and 1981 on 60 acres of
land, it offers unique features including extensive common areas and
green space; community gardens, orchards, and vineyards; narrow
streets; pedestrian and bike paths; solar homes; and an innovative
ecological drainage system. Authors Michael and Judy
Corbett were intimately involved with the design, development,
and building of Village Homes, and have resided there since 1977.
Ecolovillages New
Frontiers for Sustainability by
Jonathon Dawson (Author)
In the last twenty years ecovillages - local
communities which aim to minimise their
ecological impact but maximise human
wellbeing and happiness - have been
springing up all over the world. They
incorporate a wealth of radical ideas and
approaches which can be traced back to
Schumacher, Gandhi, the 1960s, and the
alternative education movement. This
Briefing describes the history and potential
of the ecovillage movement, including the
evolution of the Global Ecovillage Network
and the current developments in both North
and South. The threads that are brought
together in Ecovillages include:
Learning from the best elements in
traditional and indigenous cultures -
Alternative economy: community banks and
currencies, and voluntary simplicity -
Designing with nature: using permaculture
design, eco-building, small-scale energy
generation, waste-management, low-impact
transport systems, etc Organic,
locally-based food production and processing
- Reviving small-scale participatory
governance, conflict facilitation & social
inclusion as well as reviving active
inter-generational community - Creating a
culture of peace, and holistic, whole person
education In an age of diminishing oil
supplies, the Briefing examines the lessons
that we can learn from ecovillages to show
us how to live in a more ecologically sound
and sustainable way.
Ecology of Place,
The
Planning for
Environment, Economy, and Community by Timothy Beatley (Author),
Kristy Manning (Author)
The Ecology of Place,
Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning describe a world in which land is
consumed sparingly, cities and towns are vibrant and green, local
economies thrive, and citizens work together to create places of
eduring value. They present a holistic and compelling approach to
repairing and enhancing communities, introducing a vision of
"sustainable places" that extends beyond traditional architecture
and urban design to consider not just the physical layout of a
development but the broad set of ways in which communities are
organized and operate. Chapters examine:
the history
and context of current land use problems, along with the concept
of "sustainable places"
the ecology of
place and ecological policies and actions
local and
regional economic development
links between
land-use and community planning and civic involvement
specific
recommendations to help move toward sustainability
Energy Efficient Buildings Architecture,
Engineering, and Environment by
Dean Hawkes (Author), Wayne Forster (Author)
Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and
engineering, this book examines the environmental function and
performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical
studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world
reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture
and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and
energy efficient. 180 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations.
Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies by
Eric Corey Freed
Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the
environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your
friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly
method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses
plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows
you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home
is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion.
You’ll start by identifying green materials and sizing up potential
systems and construction sites. You’ll weigh the pros and cons of
popular green building methods and identify opportunities for saving
money in the long run. Need to find some green professionals to
assist you in your venture? We’ll help you do that, too. This book
will also help you discover how to:
Understand the lifecycle of building materials
Choose the right system for your green building project
Put together a green team
Work within your budget
Use green building methods and sustainable systems
Speed construction and reduce energy use and waste
Refinish old fixtures and materials
Beware of asbestos and lead-paint hazards
Avoid costly mistakes
Complete with lists of ten green things to do on every project and
ten things you can do right now in your home in order to go
green, Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your one-stop
guide to planning and building the home you’ve always wanted.
Green House, The New
Directions in Sustainable Architecture by
Alanna Stang(Author),
Christopher Hawthorne (Author)
From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori,
Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the
urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and
Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the
globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or
"green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in
fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural
environment -- designed by a combination of star architects and
heretofore unknown practitioners. Six different climactic zones are
presented in The Green House -- waterfront, forest and mountain,
tropical, desert, suburban, and urban; there is also a section on
mobile dwellings. Each chapter features a series of homes that show
the diversity and possibility of sustainable design. Projects are
presented with large color images, plans, drawings, and an
accompanying text that describes their green features and explains
how they work with and in the environment. Architects included:
Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Miller/Hull, Rick Joy, Lake Flato,
Kengo Kuma, Glenn Murcutt, Pugh & Scarpa, Werner Sobek, and many
others. The Green House is not only a beautiful object in its own
right, but is sure to be an indispensable reference for anyone
building or interested in sustainable design -- and if you ask us,
that should be everyone.
Green Urbanism
Learning from European Cities By Timothy Beatley
From Book
News, Inc.
Beatley (urban and environmental planning, U. of
Virginia-Charlottesville) takes examples from 25 innovative European
cities on how to preserve green space, ease traffic congestion, and
make cities more livable livable in other ways. He looks at the
sustainable cities movement, transit systems and policies, renewable
energy, sustainable forms of economic development, sustainable
building, and generally green thinking in all decision making. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Living Tradition, A Architecture of the Bahamas by
Stephen A. Mouzon
Book
Description
This book is a graphic architectural code that
makes the unusual proposition of directing
itself to the population of the Bahamas at-large
rather than just to the architects. This book
follows the instructions for each pattern with
an explanation of "We do this because..." It is
believed that by opening up the rationale for
architecture again, an entire culture might come
to understand why they love what they love, just
as their grandparents and those before them did.
New Urbanism has figured out excellence in
architecture in its best developments, but
adversaries often complain that those places
lack vitality in their architecture. The
greatest places all exhibit great variety in a
narrow range, but new urbanists have not yet
done as well as our ancestors in creating great
varieties within that range.
The book is polemically ecological. Each pattern
that contributes to one or more LEED credits
spells out the details of how the credits may be
earned. It also points out the ecological
contributions of many patterns that are
currently outside the scope of what LEED
recognizes to be green. The book is also
comprehensively Transect-based, calibrating each
pattern of the architecture directly to the
Transect. The Transect coding of each pattern is
also calibrated across the Classical/Vernacular
Spectrum from Refined to Organic.
Nature of Design Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
By David W. Orr
From the Publisher
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly
negative-trying to stop "progress". The Nature of Design, on the
other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological
design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy,
materials, livelihood, and deal with waste. Ecological design is an
emerging field aiming to recalibrate what humans do in the world
with how the world works as a biophysical system. Design in this
sense is a large concept having to do as much with politics and
ethics as with buildings and technology. This is a book that
combines theory, practicality, and action.
Peak Everything
Waking up to the Century of Declines
By Richard Heinberg
Peak Everything addresses many of the
cultural, psychological, and practical
changes we will have to make as nature
rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest
book from Richard Heinberg, author of three
of the most important books on Peak Oil,
touches on the most important aspects of the
human condition at this unique moment in
time.
A combination of wry commentary and
sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as
farming and industrial design, this book
tells how we might make the transition from
the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with
grace and satisfaction, while preserving the
best of our collective achievements. A
must-read for individuals, business leaders,
and policymakers who are serious about
effecting real change.
IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares
her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable
design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann
Designs, blends sustainable home layouts,
eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to
create a "prepackaged" green solution to home
design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles
that are present in every design her firm
creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy
efficiency, water conservation, and healthy
environment-and how each work together to create
homes that make a difference.
Michelle Kaufmann founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs
in 2002. Michelle's work is widely published and her
homes have been showcased in a number of museums
including the National Building Museum, the
Vancouver Art Center, MOCA in Los Angeles, and
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Michelle
lives in Marin County, California.
Cathy Remick has worked as a staff architect and
designer for several national firms in San Francisco
and Washington, D.C. She is a design manager for
mkStudios. She lives in Orinda, California.
Recycling the City
The Use and Reuse of Urban Land Edited by Rosalind
Greenstein and
Yseim Sungu-Eryilmaz
This collection of
essays examines underutilized, abandoned and vacant urban land
within political, economic, institutional and policy contexts. In
the volume’s three sections, the authors consider the issues at the
national, regional, local and site levels; examine redevelopment
processes and policies; and describe some potential uses of vacant
and abandoned land, including urban agriculture, green development,
and the preservation of an industrial landscape for cultural uses.
Restorative
Commons: Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes Edited by
Lindsay Campbell and Anne Wiesen
A
collection of 18 articles inspired by the Meristem 2007 Forum,
"Restorative Commons for Community Health." The articles include
interviews, case studies, thought pieces, and interdisciplinary
theoretical works that explore the relationships between human
health and the urban environment. This volume is a joint endeavor of
Meristem and the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station as
they work to strengthen networks for researchers and practitioners
to develop new solutions to persistent and emergent challenges to
human health, well-being, and potential within the urban
environment.
Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio
Community Architecture by
David Moos (Editor), Gail Trechsel (Contributor), Samuel Mockbee
(Contributor)
The architect and teacher Samuel Mockbee, founder of Auburn
University's Rural Studio, was an idealist who put into action one
of the boldest programs in contemporary architecture. Mockbee led
his students in the design and construction of homes, community
centers and other essential structures in Hale County, Alabama--one
of the poorest counties in the United States. Mockbee believed that
architecture could play a determining role in combating the
brutalities of poverty. He inspired students to create vanguard
designs and utilize an array of innovative, cost-effective building
materials that included scraps of carpet baled into rectangular
building blocks. This combination of ingenuity and enterprise
informed the unique character of Mockbee's undertaking. Samuel
Mockbee and the Rural Studio appraises Mockbee's unique
contribution, assessing how he believed that architecture, practiced
as a community-oriented undertaking, could transform the social
environment.
Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the
Decline of the American Dream By
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jess Speck
Like "an architectural version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
our main streets and neighborhoods have been replaced by alien
substitutes, similar but not the same," state Duany, Plater-Zyberk
and Speck in this bold and damning critique. The authors, who lead a
firm that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods and community
revitalization plans, challenge nearly half a century of widely
accepted planning and building practices that have produced
sprawling subdivisions, shopping centers and office parks connected
by new highways. These practices, they contend, have not only
destroyed the traditional concept of the neighborhood, but eroded
such vital social values as equality, citizenship and personal
safety. Further, they charge that current suburban developments are
not only economically and environmentally "unsustainable," but "not
functional" because they isolate and place undue burdens on at-home
mothers, children, teens and the elderly. Adapting the precepts that
famed urbanologist Jane Jacobs used to critique unhealthy city
planning, Duany, Plater-Zyberk and Speck call for a revolution in
suburban design that emphasizes neighborhoods in which homes,
schools, commercial and municipal buildings would be integrated in
pedestrian-accessible, safe and friendly settings. While
occasionally presenting unsupported claims--such as that gated
communities (of which there are now more than 20,000 in the U.S.)
deprive children of gaining "a sense of empathy" in a diverse
society--their visionary book holds out hope that we can create
"places that are as valuable as the nature they displaced." (Mar.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Toward the Livable City is intended for commuters, suburbanites,
and city dwellers who are both curious about making their lives more
livable and interested in knowing what that might mean. Combining
firsthand accounts of the attractions and distractions of city life,
this book also introduces a wide range of perspectives about
creating successful, livable cities, with examples from across
America and around the world. The book conveys what leading thinkers
say about such topics as smart growth, opportunity-based housing,
traffic calming, pedestrian rights, regional planning, riverfront
redevelopment, urban agriculture, and the pleasures of sauntering
with one’s neighbors down tree-lined streets to restaurants,
theaters, and shops.
Tropical
Architecture Critical Regionalism in
the Age of Globalization
Edited by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre andBruno Stagno
From the Publisher
Tropical Architecture presents a selection of essays by
architectural historians and theoreticians on key issues in tropical
architecture today. Alongside these are examples of work (both
architectural and urbanist) from leading tropical architecture
practitioners - including emerging practitioners and established
architectural stars. Contributors include Ken Yeang, Michael Pearce,
Charles Correa and many more.
Synopsis
Architects, academics, and critics examine a broad array of issues
related to the shared ecology and differing regional styles of
architecture in the tropical regions in this collection of 13
essays. Accompanied by illustrations and photographs, the essays
address commonalities in approaches to shared environmental
dilemmas, the conflict between regionalism and globalization, the
relationship between architecture and national identity,
considerations of environmental sustainability, urban development,
and other issues raised by tropical architecture. Annotation c. Book
News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Upcycle:
Beyond
Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by
Eric Utne
"The upcycle is a book about creativity, about thinking big even if
we have to act small, and about approaching problems with a bias for
action. It encourages us to find solutions through close
observation, innovation and the study of real, local conditions and
needs..."
A
timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs'
lifework, What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane
Jacobs invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to
refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the
present day. Combining personal and professional observations with
meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse
experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
The book models itself after Jacobs' collaborative approach to city
and community building, asking community members and niche
specialists to share their knowledge with a broader community, to
work together toward a common goal of building the 21st century
city.
The resulting collection of original essays expounds and expands
Jacobs' ideas on the qualities of a vibrant, robust urban area. It
offers the generalist, the activist, and the urban planner practical
examples of the benefits of planning that encourages community
participation, pedestrianism, diversity, environmental
responsibility and self-sufficiency.
Bob Sirman, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, describes
how built form should be an embodiment of a community narrative.
Daniel Kemmis, former Mayor of Missoula, shares an imagined dialog
with Jacobs,' discussing the delicate interconnection between cities
and their surrounding rural areas. And Roberta Brandes Gratz—urban
critic, author, and former head of Public Policy of the New York
State Preservation League—asserts the importance of architectural
preservation to environmentally sound urban planning practices.
What We See asks us all to join the conversation about next steps
for shaping socially just, environmentally friendly, and
economically prosperous urban communities.
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