skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

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

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

Author: David W Orr
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David W Orr
ISBN: 0262151170 9780262151177 9780262651127 0262651122
OCLC Number: 65538713
Description: xvi, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Context: A meditation on building -- The origins of ecological design -- The design revolution: notes for practitioners -- II. Building: Origins -- The building -- Landscapes: monologues to dialogues -- The gift must must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving, and receiving -- III. Evolution: The politics of institutional change -- Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning -- The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world -- IV. Pedagogy: The origins of the ideas -- The green campus movement -- The rest of the story -- Appendix A. Oberlin College environmental policy.
Responsibility: David W. Orr.
More information:

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.