Titre et auteur:

Dimensions of sustainability : architecture form, technology, environment, culture / [edited by Andrew Scott].

Publication:

London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1998.

Description:

x, 147 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 131) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Time for Change and Innovation -- Dematerialization, Demobilization and Adaptation -- Fitness, The Evolutionary Imperative -- Buildings as Engines for Environmental Restoration -- The Evolution of a Naturally Conditioned Building Type -- Declaration of Interdependence -- The Need and Drive for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design -- Concept to Demolition: An Integrated Approach to Sustainability -- Architecture Revisited: On Listening to Buildings -- Addressing the Big Building Crisis in Sustainability: Communities, Infrastructures, and Indoor Environments -- Comment: Questioning the Stand-Alone Building -- The Micro Climate Envelope -- The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered -- Ecology in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling with the Environment -- Photographs: who's who -- Image credits -- Index.

Résumé:

An edited representation of the presentations made at the MIT Dimensions of Sustainability Symposium in November 1996.

Ressources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0419236201 (paperback)
9780419236207 (paperback)

Sujet:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Designs and plans Congresses.
Architecture and climate Congresses.
Architecture and technology Congresses.
Architecture and energy conservation Congresses.
Architecture Environmental aspects Congresses.
Architecture Dessins et plans Congrès.
Architecture et climat Congrès.
Architecture et technologie Congrès.
Architecture et économies d'énergie Congrès.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Congrès.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Innovations.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture and technology
Architecture and energy conservation
Architecture and climate
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Umweltverträglichkeit
Kongress
Bauökologie
Sustainable architecture.

Classification/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Vedettes secondaires:

Scott, Andrew, 1951-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 202004
Cote: NA2750 .D6 1998
Statut: Disponible