Title & Author:

Re-inventing construction / edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby ; with an illustrated index compiled by Something Fantastic ; and written by Jessica Bridger.

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press, ©2010.

Description:

437 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Evolved from a debate-platform, the International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on Re-inventing Construction, that took place in April 2010 at the Universidad Ibéroamericana in Santa Fé, Mexico City."--Page [5].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Toward a gay science of construction / Ilka and Andreas Ruby -- Reduce CO2 : Reduce CO2 / Forrest Meggers ; Saving the climate saves you money / Armory B. Lovins ; Architecture isn't here to stay / Werner Sobek ; Going SOFT / Sheila Kennedy / KVA ; The joys of ecolomy / Bjarke Ingels / Big ; EOL, COP, PVT, TABS and Lowex / Forrest Meggers, Hansjurg Leibundgut ; Conditioning the desert / Tobias Wallisser / LAVA ; An illustrated index of re-inventing construction A-H -- Take on complexity : Take on complexity / Hans- Rudolf Schalcher ; In favor of flow / Kazuhiro Kojima / C+A ; Building on speed / Michel Rojkind ; Challenge the standard / Francisco Pardo ; The cook, the prospector, the nomad and their architect / Jeanne Gang ; Buy one, get one free / Anne Lacaton, Jean- Philippe Vassal ; Squaring the circle / Peter Swinnin, Johan Anrys ; Best used before / Minsuk Cho ; An illustrated index of re-inventing construction H-P -- Mine the city : Mine the city / Ilka and Andreas Ruby ; Re:going around in circles / Marc Angelil, Cary Siress ; Architecture to take away / Keller Easterling ; Big apple, homegrown / Michael Sorkin ; The hanging gardens of the 21st century / Dickson Despommier ; Pimp my world / Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano ; The vernacular Rediscovered / Dirk Hebel ; An illustrated index of re-inventing construction P-Z -- Stimulate stakeholders : Stimulate stakeholders / Chrisna du Plessis ; The empathy principle / Jeremy Rofkin ; The settler is king / Anne-Julchen Berhardt, Jorg Leeser ; Governing the commons in the new millennium / Elinor Ostrom Harini Nagendra ; The promise of Neza / Jose Castillo ; The Mexican dream / Livia Corona ; Architecture without developers / Christian Roth, Sascha Zander ; Sustaining what? / Cary Siress.

ISBN:

9783981343625
398134362X

Subject:

Sustainable construction Congresses.
Architecture, Modern Congresses.
Construction durable Congrès.
Architecture, Modern
Sustainable construction
Bauwerk
Baukonstruktion
Nachhaltigkeit
Mexiko <Stadt, 2010>

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings
Kongress.

Added entries:

Ruby, Ilka.
Ruby, Andreas.
Bridger, Jessica.
Something Fantastic (Firm)
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction (Zurich, Switzerland)
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction (Santa Fé, Mexico : 2010)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284022
Call No.: BIB 222618
Status: Available