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Orr, David W., 1944-

Design on the edge : the making of a high-performance building / David W. Orr.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.

xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

'Design on the Edge' tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement. The book illustrates the process of institutional change, institutional learning, and the political economy of design.

Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio)

Oberlin College -- Buildings.

Buildings -- Ohio -- Oberlin -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.

Also issued online.

I. Context: A meditation on building -- The origins of ecological design -- The design revolution: notes for practitioners -- II. Building: Origins -- The building -- Landscapes: monologues to dialogues -- The gift must must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving, and receiving -- III. Evolution: The politics of institutional change -- Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning -- The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world -- IV. Pedagogy: The origins of the ideas -- The green campus movement -- The rest of the story -- Appendix A. Oberlin College environmental policy.

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