Main entry:

Tabb, Phillip.

Title & Author:

The greening of architecture : a critical history and survey of contemporary sustainable architecture and urban design / by Phillip James Tabb and A. Senem Deviren.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2013.
©2013

Description:

xxi, 193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of green architecture : Introduction ; Early green design strategies ; Modern green antecedents ; Contradictions with modernism and sustainability ; Greening architecture ; Greening urbanism ; Temporal landscape for sustainability -- 1960s: an environmental awakening : The American dream ; Early warnings ; Social sustainability ; Planning and design responses ; Visionary beginnings ; Radical architecture ; Mainstreaming modernism -- 1970s: solar architecture : Impact of the 1973 oil embargo ; Active solar technologies ; Passive solar systems ; Architectural integration ; Off-grid and unplugged ; Solar communities ; Weaving modernism -- 1980s: postmodern green : Postmodernism ; Conservation, preservation and historicism ; Contemporary vernacular ; Postmodern urbanism ; Critical regionalism ; Postmodern green architecture -- 1990s: eco-technology : High-tech architecture ; Virtual architecture ; Eco-technology ; Low-tech hybrids ; Literal greening of architecture ; Health concerns ; Green certification programs -- 2000s: sustainable pluralism : Poly-scaler sustainability ; Biometrics ; Infrastructure architecture ; sustainable urbanism ; agricultural urbanism ; Ecological footprint ; Next generation green -- The global landscape : Urban-rural ; High-tech-low-tech -- New-existing ; Extreme-mainstream ; X-large-x-small ; Proliferating green architecture -- Conclusion.
Includes information on Expo 67 and Habitat 67.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

This accessible and engaging text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural and climatic contexts.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781409447399 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1409447391 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781409447405 (ebk)
1409447405 (ebk)
9781472403896 (epub)
1472403894 (epub)

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture durable.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architektur
Bauökologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtgestaltung
Umweltverträglichkeit
Expo 67 (Montréal, Québec) Buildings
Habitat 67 (Montréal, Québec)

Added entries:

Deviren, A. Senem.
Deviren, A. Senem. author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293990
Call No.: BIB 239264
Status: Available