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Big & green : toward sustainable architecture in the 21st century / edited by David Gissen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextNew York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press ; 2002Description: 192 pages : colour illustrations, plans ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1568983611
  • 9781568983615
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Energy -- The air we breathe -- Light & air -- Vertiscapes: the skyscraper as garden -- Greenery, water and waste -- Beyond the limits of sustainable architecture -- Construction -- Rethinking the corporate biosphere -- Urbanism -- Interviews, Nina Rappaport: Richard Rogers, Kenneth Yeang, Robert Fox, Bruce Fowle, and William Browning
Summary: The book examines more than 40 of the most important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion from Expo 2000 in Hanover-with project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings. Interviews with such leaders in the field as Sir Richard Rogers, William McDonough, and Kenneth Yeang are also included.
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General General ATU Mayo General Shelves 720.47 BIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J138717

Accompanies an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

Introduction -- Energy -- The air we breathe -- Light & air -- Vertiscapes: the skyscraper as garden -- Greenery, water and waste -- Beyond the limits of sustainable architecture -- Construction -- Rethinking the corporate biosphere -- Urbanism -- Interviews, Nina Rappaport: Richard Rogers, Kenneth Yeang, Robert Fox, Bruce Fowle, and William Browning

The book examines more than 40 of the most important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion from Expo 2000 in Hanover-with project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings. Interviews with such leaders in the field as Sir Richard Rogers, William McDonough, and Kenneth Yeang are also included.

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