Design on the edge : the making of a high-performance building

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orr, David W. , 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , c2006
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A meditation on building
  • 2. The origins of ecological design
  • 3. The design revolution: notes for practitioners
  • 4. Origins
  • 5. The building
  • 6. Landscape: monologue to dialogue
  • 7. The gift must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving and receiving
  • 8. The politics of institutional change
  • 9. Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning
  • 10. The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world
  • 11. The origins of the ideals
  • 12. The green campus movement
  • 13. The rest of the story