New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

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New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

History of architecture History The environment Civil engineering, surveying and building

Author: Colin Porteous

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Language: English

Published by: Taylor & Francis

Published on: 11 October 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 9 Mb

ISBN: 9781136408564


Introduction

The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at twenty-first century environmental needs and priorities. The attitudes and influences of renowned figures are re-examined in relation to current issues of architectural sustainability.

Target Audience

By setting today’s green architectural quest within a twentieth century context, and evaluating the main protagonists with regard to a modern eco-sensitive lineage, the book will be of primary interest to architectural students, academics and practitioners. However, it should also intrigue historians, theoreticians and critics, who tend to gloss over such issues, as well as other disciplines engaged with the built environment.

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