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Sustainable Design

Waterhsed Media Online Eco-Design Bookstores and Publishers

Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature

Janine M.Benyus, Quill Publishers

The Eco-design Handbook
Alastair Fuad-luke, Thames & Hudson

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
by Victor Papanek

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
by David W. Orr

Ecodesign: The Sourcebook
by Alastari Fuad-Luke, Alastair Fuad-Luke

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
by Lester R. Brown

Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation, 2nd Edition
by Jacquelyn A. Ottman, William K. Reilly

The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day
by Geoffrey Jellicoe, Susan Jellicoe

The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
by David W. Orr

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
Whether you agree with this boook or not, it's important to understand ALL sides of this issue.
Read also the following:
Ten things environmental educators should know about The Skeptical Environmentalist
Correcting myths from Bjørn Lomborg
Misleading Math about the Earth: Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist

Architecture / Community Development

Dimensions of Sustainability: Architecture, Form, Technology, Environment and Culture
by Andrew Scott (Editor)

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design
by Nancy Jack Todd (Contributor), John Todd, Jeffrey Parkin (Illustrator)

The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings
by Ken Yeang, Kenneth Yeang, Ken Yang

Sustainable Ecosystems and the Built Environment
by Christopher McCarthy, Guy Battle

The Technology of Ecological Building: Basic Principles and Measures, Examples and Ideas
by Klaus Daniels, Elizabeth Schwaiger (Translator) (Hardcover - April 1997)

Industrial Ecology
Graedel & Allenby, Prentice Hall,1995

Global Warming
John Houghton, Cambridge University Press,1997

The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products
Edwin Datschefski,RoboVision 2001

Product Design

Skin-surface substance & design
Ellen Lupton, Laurence King

Plastics - Materials for Inspirational Design
Chris Lefteri, RotoVision, 2001

Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
by HelenLewis and John Gertsakis with Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli and Andrew Sweatman.
200 p., US$40.00 (Greenleaf Publishing, 2001)

The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products.
by Edwin Datschefski. 169 pp, US$39.95 (RotoVision, 2001)
Order directly from the author at http://www.biothinking.com if you're in Europe.

Additional resources

The Centre for Sustainable Design (UK),
in partnership with BRASS at the University of Cardiff (UK), and J. Ottman Consulting (US) and University of Victoria (Australia), announces the launch of Smart: Know-Net, the Sustainable Marketing Knowledge Network.

The newly formed International Centre for Sustainability
Green Design resources, master classes, and other information

 

Urban Design

 

 

Heroes
Luis Bunuel
Buckminster Fuller
Hans Scharoun
Rodchenko
Tatlin
Kafka

What's being recommended in Architecture Schools: A Sample

Naomi Klein, No Logo , Flamingo 2000.
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, Monacelli Press 1994
Michael Sorkin, Local Code : The Constitution of a City at 42 Degrees N Latitude, Princeton Architectural Press
Rem Koolhaas, Mutations : ISBN 84-95273-51-9
Malcolm Miles, The City Cultures Reader : ISBN 0-415-207 34-7
JG Ballard, High-rise, Flamingo
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books
Jane Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Random House
Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival, Random House
Mike Davis, City of Quartz, Vintage Books
Mike Davis, Beyond Bladerunner: Urban Control and the Ecology of Fear, Open Magazine
Dan Graham, Rock My Religion (chpt: Corporate Arcadias), MIT

Saskia Sassen, The Global City, Princeton University Press
Saskia Sassen, Globalisation and its Discontents, New Press, 1999
Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance, Princeton Architectural Press, 1998
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967 Several translations and editions available, i.e. Zone Books, N.Y. 1995
Michael Sorkin Editor), Variations on a Theme Park : The New American City and the End of Public Space
Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger, The Cluetrain Manifesto, 1999
http://www.cluetrain.com/
the website contains the manifesto and links to the book:
The Cluetrain Manifesto – The End of Business as Usual, Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger, Perseus Press, 1999

Kevin Kelly, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (Perseus Books, Cambridge Massachusetts)
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (London, Athlone Press)
Michio Kaku, Hyperspace (Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press);
Time Crayton, “The Design Implications of Mass Customisation” AD (architectural design) – Architecture + Animation p74-81
Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, “TRANSPARENCY: Literal and Phenomenal” As I was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays
Stan Allen, “On Projection”
Jeffrey Kipnis, “Towards a New Architecture”, Architectural Design; Folding in Architecture 1993
Charles Jencks and Karl Krops ed., Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (London: Academy Editions, 1997)
Ulrich Conrads ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1971).
‘Space Within’-Carlos Villanueva Brandt In ‘Occupying Architecture-between the architect and the user’, ed. Jonathan Hill
‘Cedric Price’s Non-Plan Diary’, Cedric Price, In Non-plan-Essays on Freedom participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism, ed. By S.Sadler and J. Hughes

 

 

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