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Ecological Architecture: A Critical History
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Product Description
Ecological Architecture charts the ascendancy of an ecological approach to building over the past century, assessing as it does so the situation as it stands today, and identifying where we might go next. As a decisive step in the rewriting of the history of modern architecture, this book will be essential reading for practitioners and students of architecture: as an urgent wake-up call concerning the state of our built environment, it will be of interest to everyone with a stake in the future of our planet.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #438710 in Books
- Published on: 2005-10-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
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About the Author
James Steele is Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. As a teacher and practising architect, he has pioneered an ecological approach and, among his publications, are volumes on important non-Western practitioners, including Hassan Fathy, Balkrishna Doshi and Rasem Badran.
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ARCHITECTURE AND GREEN ISSUES
James Steele has offered "culturally futuristic" approach to the issues of green/ecological architecture. It paints a global picture of green architecture by the classic selection case studies of architects.
