Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Architects identify “sustainability” as the most important change in the future of their profession. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical, comprehensive guide to design and plan a built environment compatible with the region’s economic, social, and ecological patterns.
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, Sustainable Design answers key questions such as:
- How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically
- What is the difference between “green design” and “sustainable design”?
- What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost?
Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects’ and urban planners’ work.
Williams’s book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.
Author: Daniel E. Williams
Publisher: Wiley
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Index
Foreword by David W. Orr
Foreword by Donald Watson, FAIA
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: The Ecological Model
Ecology
Ecology as a Model
Waste Debts
The Value of Land
Paradigm Shift
Thinking as a System: Connectivity, Not Fragmentation
CHAPTER TWO: Sustainable Design
Where Do We Want to Go?
Design Matters
Why Architects?
Green Design versus Sustainable Design
Why Now?
Approaching Sustainability
Place-Based Energy and Resources
Principles for Designing Sustainably
Where to Start?
CHAPTER THREE: Regional Design
Evolving from Nonrenewables
Another Weak Link: The Power Grid
The Regional Design
Water: A Common Denominator
Make No Small Plans
The Regional Design Process
Regional Case Studies
CHAPTER FOUR: Sustainable Urban and Community Design
A Matter of Place
Principles for Sustainable Communities
Regional Ecology and Biourbanism
Sustainable Urban and Community Case Studies
CHAPTER FIVE: Architectural Design
The Site: Challenges and Opportunities
Site Design and Environmental Analysis
Sustainable Infrastructure
The Skin
Evolving a Sustainable Design Practice
Sustainable Design and Existing Buildings
Sustainable Interior Architecture
CHAPTER SIX: The AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Program
1997 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
1998 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
1999 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2000 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2001 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2002 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2003 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2004 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2005 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2006 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
Afterword
Sustainability Terms
Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits
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