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Experimental Green Strategies

(original text) EXPERIMENTAL GREEN STRATEGIES Defining new ways in which architects are responding to the challenge of creating sustainable architecture, Experimental Green Strategies presents a state of the art in applied ecological, architectural research. But can a building be “ecological”? How can architects in practice carry out “research”? Is “green” building a designer’s problem, or […]

An Eames Primer

The Eames Primer is special in that it is written by Charles and Ray Eames’ grandaughter. It reveals not only the professional life but only their personal lives, in a way that each illuminates the other. The book discussed the upbringings of both Charles and Ray, their lives before their marriage, and how their interests […]

Vision of Seaside

Preface: In the preface, Dhiru A. Thadani recounts his personal engagement with Seaside, when he met Andre Duany at his lecture at the Catholic University of America, where Duany “discussed the idea of making a town whose constituent parts included a mix of uses that commonly support daily lives – housing, office, retail, and civic […]