Ecological design handbook : sustainable strategies for architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning
This is a reference guide to the many aspects of ecological design in architecture, planning and landscape architecture. The current thinking of leading experts is brought to bear on issues ranging from alternative energy to urban design
xi, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780070614994, 0070614997
40927206
Introduction / Fred A. Stitt
pt. 1. Architecture and Building: The Greatest Opportunity. Ch. 1. Why Go Green? From A Primer on Sustainable Building / Dianna Lopez Barnett and William D. Browning. Ch. 2. Green Building Design: From A Primer on Sustainable Building / Dianna Lopez Barnett and William D. Browning. Ch. 3. Why is Architecture Oblivious to the Environment? An Interview with Ian McHarg: From Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier / Chris Zelov and Phil Cousineau. Ch. 4. Design Theory From: Gentle Architecture / Malcom Wells
pt. 2. Site. Ch. 5. Nature and Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright From Frank Lloyd Wright: His Living Voice. Ch. 6. How to Uncover the Secrets of the Land / Dave Deppen. Ch. 7. Selecting a Site for Your Passive Solar Home: From a Simplified Guide / Lib Reid-McGowan. Ch. 8. The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning: From Futures by Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning / Edited by Doug Aberley
pt. 3. Sun and Wind. Ch. 9. The Passive Solar Concept: From The Passive Solar House / James Kachadorian. Ch. 10. Passive Solar: Sunspaces and Special Design Considerations: From The Passive Solar House / James Kachadorian. Ch. 11. Calculating Solar Energy and Power: From Photovoltaic Energy Systems / Matthew Buresch. Ch. 12. Building the Home Energy Machine: From The Independent Home: Living Well with Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water / Michael Potts. Ch. 13. Wind Power Evaluating the Technology
What Works and What Doesn't: From Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990s and Beyond / Paul Gipe
pt. 4. Alternative Materials and Construction. Ch. 14. History and Evolution of Earth Construction: From Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings Design and Construction / Paul Graham McHenry, Jr. Ch. 15. Benefits of Straw Bale Construction: From The Straw Bale House / Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen and David Bainbridge / [and others]. Ch. 16. The Building Envelope: Walls, Roofs, and Foundations: From Energy-Efficient Design and Construction for Commercial Buildings / Adrian Tuluca. Ch. 17. Earth Casting: From Paolo Soleri's Earth Casting: Silt as a Craft Medium / Paolo Soleris and Scott M. Davis
pt. 5. Alternative Living. Ch. 18. The Case for Reuse: From Choose to Reuse / Nikki and David Goldbeck. Ch. 19. Cluster Development: From the Last Landscape / William H. Whyte. Ch. 20. Indoor Air Quality: From Healing Environments / Carol Venolia. Ch. 21. Villages Around the World: From Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological Living Personal Empowerment, and the New Extended Family / Ken Norwood and Kathleen Smith
pt. 6. Eco Politics. Ch. 22. The Seduction of Planning: From Free Minds & Free Markets / Lynn Scarlett. Ch. 23. The Economics of Building Codes and Standards: From Resolving the Housing Crisis: Government Policy, Decontrol, and the Public Interest / Peter F. Colwell and James B. Kau / Edited by M. Bruce Johnson
pt. 7. Waste, Bioremediation, & Permaculture. Ch. 24. Living Machines New Alchemy: Where It All Began: From Eco-Cities to Living Machines / Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd. Ch. 25. From Bioshelters to Solar Villages to Future Human Settlements: From Eco-Cities to Living Machines / Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd. Ch. 26. Living Machines and the Years Ahead: From Eco-Cities to Living Machines / Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd
pt. 8. Architects and their Work. Ch. 27. The House That Max Built: From Metropolis Magazine / Eugenia Bone. Ch. 28. Environmental Showplace House: Arizona Public Services Co / Edward Jones. Ch. 29. A Home for Everyone: From Democratic Architecture: Practical Solutions to Today's Housing Crisis / Donald MacDonald. Ch. 30. Mickey Muennig
A Natural Architecture. Ch. 31. Bart Prince's Passive Solar Home and Studio. Ch. 32. Ken Yeang: A Marriage of Ecology and Design. Ch. 33. Eugene Tsui: Evolutionary Architecture. Ch. 34. Glen Small
Land in the Sky: From The Futurist. Ch. 35. Daniel B.-H. Liebermann: Eco-Village Project. Ch. 36. Phil "TC" Hawes: Eco Design Activist. Ch. 37. Steve Badanes and The Jersey Devil. Ch. 38. Biohaus: An Advanced 21st Century Home / Charles L. Sholten. Ch. 39. BioHaus / Suren Gunasekara. Ch. 40. Organic Architecture: From the Making of an Organic Architect / Kendrick Bangs Kellogg