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This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined with design projects that highlight issues holistically, they promote an understanding of the principles of sustainability and further the integration of sustainable methods into architectural projects.

Using essays that alternately revise and clarify twentieth century architectural thinking, The Green Braid places sustainability at the centre of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices, and therefore their architectural production, in a sustainable manner.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Notes on contributors(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xv)
• Acknowledgments(p. xvii)
• The Green Braid(p. 1)
• Introduction: Networked ways of knowing(p. 3)
• Architecture, ecological design, and human ecology(p. 15)
• A new social contract: Equity and sustainable development(p. 34)
• Economic sustainability in the post-industrial landscape(p. 44)
• Models, lists, and the evolution of sustainable architecture(p. 60)
• Meta-Discourses in Pedagogy and Practice(p. 75)
• Introduction(p. 77)
• Cyborg theories and situated knowledges: Some speculations on a cultural approach to technology(p. 82)
• We are no[w here]: A social critique of contemporary theory(p. 91)
• The hidden influence of historical scholarship on design(p. 101)
• Culture and the recalibration of first ring suburbs(p. 113)
• Portable Construction Training Center(p. 122)
• Mobile Eco Lab(p. 124)
• One week, eight hours(p. 127)
• Phenomena and Technology(p. 135)
• Introduction(p. 137)
• From L'Air Exact to L'Aérateur: Ventilation and its evolution in the architectural work of Le Corbusier(p. 140)
• Unhealthy energy conservation practices(p. 153)
• Good-bye, Willis Carrier(p. 160)
• The Compass House(p. 173)
• Scupper houses, or the dogtrot house and the shotgun house reconsidered(p. 179)
• An affordable, sustainable house: Richmond, Virginia, 1993(p. 184)
• Phenomenal surface: Fog House(p. 188)
• Building Practices(p. 193)
• Introduction(p. 195)
• Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, architect, and the development of engineered lumber(p. 199)
• Terunobu Fujimori: Working with Japan's small production facilities(p. 212)
• Making SmartWrap: From parts to pixels(p. 223)
• Quilting with glass, cedar, and fir: A workshop and studio in Rossland, BC(p. 234)
• Navy Demonstration Project(p. 238)
• Modernism redux: A study in light, surface, and volume(p. 241)
• Solar Sails and the triad of sustainability(p. 246)
• Settlement Patterns(p. 251)
• Introduction(p. 253)
• Economy = Ecology: A scenario for Chicago's Lake Calumet(p. 256)
• Sarajevo: Ecological reconstruction after the "urbicide"(p. 271)
• The suburban critique at mid-century: A case study(p. 281)
• 1-10 The Gulf Coast States/mall housing(p. 292)
• Community redevelopment for a small town in Florida(p. 296)
• Drifting urhanism(p. 299)
• The role of infrastructure in the production of public spaces for the city of Miami(p. 301)
• The Shared Realm(p. 305)
• Introduction(p. 307)
• Architectural invention and the postcolonial era: The Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop(p. 311)
• History, tradition, and modernity: Urbanism and cultural change in Chanderi, India(p. 329)
• Global constructions, or why Guadalajara wants a Home Depot while Los Angeles wants construction workers(p. 341)
• A raptor enclosure for the Zuni pueblo: Construction and reconsideration(p. 351)
• Garden of time, landscape of change: Women Suffrage Memorial, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1996(p. 355)
• Unmasking urban traces(p. 361)
• Index(p. 366)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Kim Tanzer is professor of Architecture at the University of Florida and an architect practicing in Gainesville, USA.
Rafael Longoria is Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston and co-editor of AULA: Architecture and Urbanism in Las Amricas.