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Big & green : toward sustainable architecture in the 21st century / edited by David Gissen.

New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Washington, DC : National Building Museum, 2003.

192 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm

"Big & Green features the work of leading architects from around the world, including: Shigeru Ban, Norman Foster, MVRDV, SOM, and Moshe Safdie, among many others. Also included is a preface by architect and green design advocate William McDonaugh, a series of essays that track the history and development of new sustainable building technologies, a glossary of green design terms, and interviews with the architects Richard Rogers, Kenneth Yeang, and the partners of Fox & Fowle."--Jacket.

Sustainable architecture -- Forecasting -- Exhibitions.

Commercial buildings -- Forecasting -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Gissen, David.

National Building Museum (U.S.)

Big and green

Accompanies an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.

Introduction / David Gissen -- Energy -- The air we breathe / Guy Battle -- Light & air -- Vertiscapes : the skyscraper as garden / James Wines -- Greenery, water & waste -- Beyond the limits of sustainable architecture : a new material sensibility for the twenty-first century / Michael Braungart -- Construction -- Rethinking the corporate biosphere : the social ecology of sustainable architecture / David Serlin -- Urbanism -- [Interviews] by Nina Rappaport: Richard Rogers, On sustainability and how it's changing the face of modernism ; Kenneth Yeang, Building cities in the sky ; Bruce Fowle, Robert Fox, and William Browning, It's not easy building green -- Glossary of terms used in sustainable design / Ashok Raiji.

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9781568983615

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