Green Architecture: The Art of Architecture in the Age of Ecology
Green Architecture: The Art of Architecture in the Age of Ecology by James Wines
English | 2000 | ISBN: 3822863033 | 240 Pages | PDF | 50.8 MB
English | 2000 | ISBN: 3822863033 | 240 Pages | PDF | 50.8 MB
When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom.