Main entry:

Farmer, John, -1994.

Title & Author:

Green shift : towards a green sensibility in architecture / John Farmer ; edited by Kenneth Richardson ; with supplementary text by Judith Farren Bradley [and others].

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.

Description:

xvi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Published in association with WWF-UK."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-193) and index.
WWF and Green Shift -- 1. Architecture: a green history for our times -- 2. Folk building -- 3. search for the origins of architecture -- 4. cult of the cottage -- 5. Ruinlust -- 6. Rocks, apes and Victorian homes -- 7. cult of childhood -- 8. John Ruskin and the idea of ecology -- 9. Ruskin and the Oxford Museum -- 10. Arts and Crafts house -- 11. architecture of natural forms -- 12. Geometric and crystalline forms -- 13. Modernism and the International Style -- 14. Organic ideas in modern architecture -- 15. England and Modernism I -- 16. England and Modernism II -- 17. ark makers -- 18. Savage present, savage past: the Herb Greene Prairie House -- 19. Green trials -- 20. Towards a green audit.

Summary:

A history of modern architecture as seen from a green standpoint. Published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0750615303 (pbk.)
9780750615303 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Duurzaam bouwen.
Arquitetura (aspectos ambientais)
Ecologia.
Architecture Related to Environment

Added entries:

Richardson, Kenneth, M.Sc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109579
Call No.: ID NA2542.35.F3; ID:96-B1538
Status: Available