Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616893001 ISBN 13: 9781616893002

Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam—show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead.

Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including:

• Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus
• Curator Barry Bergdoll
• Educator and author Alan Berger
• Environmentalist and author Lester Brown
• Architect Rick Cook
• Urban Planner Paul Farmer
• Critic Christopher Hume
• Architect Bjarke Ingels
• Landscape designer Mia Lehrer
• Architect Rob Rogers
• Critic Inga Saffron
• Artist Janet Echelman
• Environmentalist Jemma Green

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jared Green writes about cities and design for numerous publications. He is Senior Communications Manager, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and is editor of the organization's blog The Dirt.

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What design represents the best hopes for our future success on earth? The book would ask 50 American and international landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers, and other sustainable designers to answer the question in 500 words or less and 1-2 images. Both well-known and up-and-coming designers will outline how a project or design practice has created a more positive relationship between the built and natural environments and helps solve the complex social, economic and environmental challenges facing 21st century communities.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1616893001
• ISBN 13: 9781616893002
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Green Jared
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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