Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century

by David Gissen

More than a century after its inception, the skyscraper has finally come of age. Though it has long been lampooned as a venal and inhospitable guzzler of resources, a revolutionary new school of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568983611
• ISBN13: 9781568983615
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

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Fresh air

"Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century", by David Gissen, is published in conjunction with an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. from January 17 to June 22, 2003. The book clearly shows that a group of architects has addressed the energy and environmental challenges facing many countries as they industrialize and enter the global marketplace. Their buildings indicate that a breath of fresh air has reinvigorated architectural practice to produce buildings that are climate-responsive, energy efficient, and occupant friendly while cleaning rainwater, reducing air pollucion, and enhancing the local environment as opposed to degrading it. The forms and shapes of these new buildings express these new functions in an authentic and genuine manner rather than look like relatively normal buildings with alien technologies applied to them. These buildings give hope that architecture can improve conditions for a sustainable society and not remain an energy and resource sink.