Main entry:

Hagan, Susannah.

Title & Author:

Taking shape : a new contract between architecture and nature / Susannah Hagan.

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2001.

Description:

xix, 215 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.
1 Defining environmental architecture 3 -- 2 'New' nature and a new architecture 16 -- 2.2 Ceci n'est pas une pipe 16 -- 2.3 All about Eve 19 -- 2.4 Nature redux 21 -- 2.5 Racinated 24 -- 2.6 Re-racinated 31 -- 2.7 Return of the repressed 33 -- 2.8 Birth of the green 37 -- 2.9 Blurring the boundaries 42 -- 3 A post-imperial modernism? 45 -- 3.2 Makers and breakers 46 -- 3.3 Back to the garden 50 -- 3.4 Uptown 52 -- 3.5 A kinder gentler modernism 59 -- 4 Ethics and environmental design 65 -- 4.2 Being good 67 -- 4.3 Being good in buildings 70 -- 4.4 New is good? 72 -- 4.5 Good, the bad and the juggled 75 -- 5 Materials and materiality 77 -- 5.2 A lost chance 78 -- 5.3 Telling the truth 83 -- 5.4 Building the truth 86 -- 5.5 Grounded 90 -- 6 Rules of engagement 97 -- 6.2 Symbiosis 101 -- 6.2.1 Paradise regained? 103 -- 6.2.2 Terra cognita 104 -- 6.3 Differentiation 115 -- 6.3.1 'You say banana ... ' 116 -- 6.3.2 Building 'there' 121 -- 6.3.3 No 'where' 125 -- 6.4 Visibility 128 -- 6.4.1 Dreams of dwelling 129 -- 6.4.2 Between the lines 131 -- 6.4.3 Open the box 135 -- 6.4.4 A cooking lesson 137 -- 7 Doing it 147 -- 7.2 Symbiosis: Richard Horden 151 -- 7.3 Differentiation 156 -- 7.3.1 Climatic differentiation: Ken Yeang 156 -- 7.3.2 Cultural differentiation: Renzo Piano 158 -- 7.4 Visibility: Emilio Ambasz 161 -- 8 ComplexCity 167 -- 8.2 Curvy bits 168 -- 8.3 Cities of the plain 171 -- 8.4 Wild wild Web 175 -- 8.5 On edge 179 -- 8.6 Sustainable heroics? 183 -- 8.7 Flowers of the field 186 -- 8.8 Of mutual benefit 190 -- 8.9 Beyond pricing? 191.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0750649488 (pbk.)
9780750649483 (pbk.)

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture and society.
Architecture durable.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture et société.
Nachhaltigkeit
Bauökologie
Umweltgestaltung
Stadtökologie
Architecture Environmental aspects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215612
Call No.: NA2542.36 H3 2001
Status: Available