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Can we 'save the Planet'? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most compelling question for those whose daily work impacts on Nature, such as architects, engineers, landscape architects, town planners, environmental policy makers, builders and others, but it is a question that all of humanity needs to urgently address.Presented here are two key principles as the means to carry out these tasks - 'ecocentricity' being guided by the science of ecology, and 'ecomimesis' as designing and making the built environment including all artefacts based on the emulation and replication of the 'ecosystem' concept.Designing with ecology is contended here as the authentic approach to green design from which the next generation of green design will emerge, going beyond current use of accreditation systems. For those who subscribe to this principle, this is articulated here, showing how it can be implemented by design. Adopting these principles is fundamental in our endeavour to save our Planet Earth, and changes profoundly and in entirety the way we design, make, manage and operate our built environment.-back cover.

Design --- Ecologie --- Prospective --- Environnement --- Politique de l'environnement --- Sustainable design --- Green design --- 72.504 --- 72.504 Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture

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Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. By exploring key moments of inspiration between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the 1980s, Anker traces the historical intersection of architecture and ecological science and assesses how both remain intertwined philosophically and pragmatically within the still-evolving field of ecological design.The idea that science could improve human life attracted architects and designers who looked to the science of ecology to better their methodologies. Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, taught that designed form should follow the laws of nature in order to function effectively. With the Bauhaus movement, ecology and design merged and laid the foundation of modernist architecture.Anker discusses in detail how the former faculty members of the Bauhaus school--including László Maholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer--left Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s and engaged with ecologists during their "London period" and in the U.S. A subsequent generation of students and admirers of Bauhaus, such as Richard Buckminster Fuller and Ian McHarg, picked up their program, and--under the general banner of merging art and science in the design process--Bauhaus-minded architects began to think ecologically while some ecologists lent their ideas to design.Anker charts complicated currents of ecological design thought spanning pre- and post-World War II and through the cold war, including pivotal changes such as the emergence of space exploration and new theories on closed-system living in space capsules, space stations, and planetary colonies. Space ecology, Anker explains, inspired leading landscape designers of the 1970s, who used the imagined life of astronauts as a model for how humans should live in harmony with nature. Theories of how to design for extraterrestrial living impacted design and ecological thinking for earth-based living as well, as evidenced in Disney's Spaceship Earth attraction as well as in the Biosphere 2 experiments in Arizona in the early 1990s.Illuminating important connections between theories about the relationship between humans and the built environment, Anker's provocative study provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness.

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A pioneer of sustainable architecture, the architect Emilio Ambasz has been pushing forward pressing themes and ideas since the 1970s, from urban forestation to the reuse of existing buildings through the revitalising use of natural elements. Projects and buildings such as the Acros Building in Fukuoka (Japan) – built 25 years ago and awarded first prize by the Japanese Institute of Architecture – have made famous his original approach to architecture as landscape, namely as a landscape that moulds the earth so that it can comfortably accommodate people. Wary of ideology that fades with the passage of time, Ambasz also innovated in the way he presented his projects through the medium of the fable, whose poetic essence resists time with the core of a truth disguised as a children’s fairy tale. This book, edited by Fulvio Irace, brings together for the first time the design stories and writings with which Emilio Ambasz accompanied the projects that marked the various stages of his prolific career: an anthology that puts his gentle manifesto into practice – green over gray – and where his most iconic pieces of architecture are retraced, alongside stories of cities he has loved or dreamed of and conversations with architects and artists with whom he has established a unique relationship of elective affinities.

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This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies, it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects.

Landscape architecture --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Landscape ecology --- 72.504 --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- 72.504 Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Landscape architecture. --- Cities and towns. --- Landscape ecology. --- Sustainable architecture.

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Terwijl er steeds meer mensen naar de stad trekken, breidt de stedelijke periferie zich uit ten koste van de natuur. Ontwerpen voor duurzaamheid door herontwikkeling legt uit hoe duurzaamheid kan worden gerealiseerd door stedelijke herontwikkeling en upcycling. De grootschalige stedelijke herontwikkelingsprocessen die in dit boek aan de orde komen, zijn gebaseerd op een succesvol stedelijk herontwikkelingsgebied in Nederland, het Paleiskwartier in 's-Hertogenbosch. Dit boek vertelt het bijna drie decennia beslaande verhaal over het beleid, hoe beslissingen werden genomen, ontwerpen tot stand kwamen, projecten zich gefaseerd ontwikkelden en de gemeente op een unieke manier samenwerkte met de private sector. Essays en interviews met betrokkenen - waaronder directeuren, ontwerpers, ontwikkelaars en gemeentefunctionarissen - geven een gedetailleerd overzicht van de totstandkoming van dit project.

72.504 --- <492> --- <492> Nederland --- Nederland --- 72.504 Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- 71:574 --- Duurzame stedenbouw ; Nederland --- Upcycling --- Stedenbouw ; herontwikkeling --- Stedenbouw en ecologie --- Réfection --- Urbanisme durable --- Villes. --- Études de cas --- Études de cas.