Author Description

Architectural durability, sustainability, and environmental soundness are the themes of this book. While the politics of limits and scarcity have increasingly led to more restrictive measures and architectural regulation, this book argues for more freedom and experiment. For instance, instead of being static receptors of climate, buildings become dynamic regulators of climate. This book considers possible alternatives for a truly sustainable, energy enhanced architecture-detailed are thirty or so buildings that point the way, by such diverse names as Neutelings & Riedijk, Cepezed, Erick van Egeraat, Rudy Uytenhaak, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Jourda & Perraudin.