Screen LibraryEcology and the architectural imagination /
"Architecture can enhance our lives if you include ecological processes in your design from the beginning. As an ecological architect, you can offer diverse spaces to inhabitat by connecting your buildings to ecosystems the size of neighborhoods and regions and by making natural systems central...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | New York ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Architecture can enhance our lives if you include ecological processes in your design from the beginning. As an ecological architect, you can offer diverse spaces to inhabitat by connecting your buildings to ecosystems the size of neighborhoods and regions and by making natural systems central to your design. Your ecological architecture would provide urban environments that are dramatically productive and that can contain both human-driven needs and nature's needs in increasingly dense settings ... |
| Carrier Form: | x, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-168) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415622752 (paperback) : 0415622751 (paperback) 9780415622745 (hardback) 0415622743 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | NA2750 |
| CLC: | TU-023 |
| Call Number: | TU-023/M958 |
| Contents: | Ecological Architectures Within a Broader Context -- Conceptual (Eco)Architectural Constructs -- EcoArchitectural Strategies and Orders -- Narrating Architectural Futures. |