Design on the Edge
The Making of a High-Performance Building
$74.02
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2008
Summary
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 story of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College—the first substantially green building to be built on a college campus—encompasses more than the particulars of one building. In Design on the Edge, David Orr writes about the planning and design of Oberlin’s environmental studies building as p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262651127 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262651122 |
| Author: | David W. Orr |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
This is a story about one particular building’s design and construction. In other respects, it is a provocative theoretical treatise on ecological design and its implications. Quite remarkable… Highly recommended.
—ChoiceJust as the Lewis Center raised the standard for academic architecture, so Orr once again raises the bar for those of us pondering the multiple intersections of architecture, environment, and politics. His book is one of the liveliest and more important books on architecture you could ever read.
—OnionDavid W. Orr
David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and the author of The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention, The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, and Ecological Literacy.
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