Sustainable Architectures

Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America

Simon Guy, Steven A. Moore

269 pages, parution le 14/02/2005

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Résumé

Three decades of debate about sustainable architecture and a search for some form of consensus around universal best environmental practice appear to have failed. Rather than argue that we need revolution or reformation, more or less technology, more pious behaviour, to embrace or abandon the city, or to develop clearer definitions or standardisation, the authors in this book explore the diversity of contemporary debate about sustainable architecture through a collage of differing analyses and intentions, of competing discourses of cultures and natures.

In the process of analysing the case studies documented in this collection, the editors develop the thesis that the challenge of sustainability is more a matter of local interpretation than of the setting of objective or universal goals. Rather than embrace simple relativism, their arguments are built upon the consequences of collective action, in particular, contexts of design and development. In this way the book encourages a deeper engagement with sustainable architecture, one that does not shy away from broader sociological or philosophical questions or merely indulge in the narrowly instrumental debates that characterises so much of the green architecture literature.

By exploring sustainable architectures in the plural, as competing interpretations of our environmental futures, the authors collectively begin to ask new questions and perhaps introduce some fresh thinking about sustainable design.

L'auteur - Simon Guy

Simon Guy is Dean of Research and has a personal chair in Urban Development in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. In 2001, he won the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) Best Paper Prize.

L'auteur - Steven A. Moore

Steven A. Moore is Co-director of the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development and Director of the Masters program in Sustainable Design at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His book Technology and Place won the 2001 Award for Research from Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).

Sommaire

Introduction: The paradoxes of sustainable architecture
Modelling design
- Hybrid environments
- The spaces of sustainable design
- Theory, practice and proof Learning from buildings that teach
- The social construction of 'green building' codes Competing models by industry, government and NGOs
Responding design
- The politics of design in cities
- Preconceptions, frameworks and trajectories of sustainable building
- Equal couples in equal houses
- Cultural perspectives on Swedish solar and bio-pellet heating design
Competing design
- Safe houses and green architecture
- Reflections on the lessons of the chemically sensitive
- Revaluing wood
- Policing sustainability
- Strategies towards a sustainable architecture in Norway
Alternative design
- Green buildings in Denmark
- From radical ecology to consumer-oriented market approaches?
- Leaky walls
- Challenges to sustainable practices in post-disaster communities
- Social research on energy-efficient building technologies Towards a sociotechnical integration
Conclusion
- Reflection and engagement
- Towards pluralist practices of sustainable architecture

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Spon Press
Auteur(s)	Simon Guy, Steven A. Moore
Parution	14/02/2005
Nb. de pages	269
Format	17,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	567g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415700450