Sorry, out of gas : architecture's response to the 1973 oil crisis / edited by Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini ; with contributions by Adam Bobbette [and others] ; with an illustrated tale by Harriet Russell.

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Description:

235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Issued also in French under title: Désolé, plus d'essence.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An endangered species / Harriet Russell -- Think different / Mirko Zardini -- Oil : 17 October 1973 ; A new austerity ; World leaders react ; Topical games -- Sun : Solar in the laboratory ; Pioneering experiments ; A solar first ; Portraits of solar in 1975 ; Do-it-yourself solar -- Jimmy Carter takes a stand ; Innovation: the thermal window ; Innovation: the Trombe wall ; Steve Baer: democratizing solar ; An American version of the Trombe wall ; Michael Jantzen: solar high-tech ; The shift to passive solar ; O.M. Ungers: solar on an urban scale -- In the footsteps of the counter-culture / Caroline Maniaque -- Earth : Using the earth for shelter ; Underground space center ; Malcolm Wells: architecture and nature ; Michael Reynolds: creative recycling ; Ecology house: aesthetics of green ; Jay Swayze: underground visions ; The energy crisis and super-insulation -- Wind : Wind power and energy self-sufficiency ; An urban experiment: 519 East 11th Street ; An urban experiment: NYU ; Windworks: energy for everybody -- Integrated systems : Buckminster Fuller and World game ; Ecol operation ; Alternative technologies and publications on energy ; Centre for Alternative Technology ; Integrated Life Support Systems Laboratories ; New Alchemy Institute ; The Ouroboros Project ; Farallones Institute.

Exhibitions:

Catalogue of an exhibition '1973: Sorry, Out of Gas' held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Nov. 7, 2007 to Apr. 20, 2008.

ISBN:

9780920785782 (CCA)
0920785786 (CCA)
9788875701437 (Corraini Edizioni)
8875701431 (Corraini Edizioni)

Subject:

Architecture and energy conservation Exhibitions.
Architecture Technological innovations Exhibitions.
Energy conservation Exhibitions.
Architecture et économies d'énergie Expositions.
Économies d'énergie Expositions.
Architecture and energy conservation.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Energy conservation.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-
Zardini, Mirko.
Bobbette, Adam, 1980-
Russell, Harriet, 1977-
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Architecture's response to the 1973 oil crisis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254246
Call No.: NA2542.3 .S67 2007
Copy: c. 4
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 253874
Call No.: NA2542.3 .S67 2007
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 254245
Call No.: 2007-6
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 253873
Call No.: 2007-6
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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