Think globally. Act architecturally. · Apr 22, 10:42 AM
Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
Wallpaper says:
“Through stunning aerial photography, (Berger) records the worst of this taken-for-granted resource, tracing the millions of abandoned, overexploited, junked and fallow acres that exist, scattered across the country’s landscape of big-box outlets, tract housing, raised interstates and post-industrial and post-military wreckage. It is Berger’s belief that we can all do a damn sight better.”
Sprawltown: Looking for the City on Its Edges
Architectural Record says:
“Acknowledging that sprawl banishes the idea of belonging to a civic whole, and usually takes ugly forms, Ingersoll the optimist accepts sprawl as a challenge. In time, he believes, it might define a ‘new type of urban beauty, a new bond of citizenship, and a new sustainability.”
House & Garden says:
“Ecologically sensitive projects make up Natural Architecture. Some, such as a water station and a chicken house, are practical; many are dazzling in their inventiveness and beauty.” (October 2007
Washington Post says:
“This book has excellent graphics and color photographs. It is an up-to-date how-to volume that shows that it is possible anywhere, with the proper planning, to install a rooftop garden.”
The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture
Town and Country says:
“Demonstrates quite vividly that environmental responsibility and dazzling design are no longer mutually exclusive.”
Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
Surface says:
“The book finds plenty of room for co-existence at the intersection of aesthetics and ecological sustainability.”
Grant Jones/Jones – Jones: ILARIS: The Puget Sound Plan
Source Books in Landscape Architecture focuses on Jones’s “green print” plan for Puget Sound in Washington State. Working in collaboration with the Trust for Public Lands and using new GIS technology, Jones – Jones developed the software tool ILARIS. This CAD-like tool helps to evaluate the aesthetic resources of landscape regions and is used as a basis for future planning. The Puget Sound model can be applied to other landscapes at risk.
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