RESOURCES

List of additional resources for Ten Shades of Green Web resources:

 

Smart Architecture

This high-design Dutch page asks the question, "What is Smart Architecture?" and goes about answering it. Includes a project grid featuring the Minnaert building, as well as text by Sustainable Architecture author Ed Melet.

International Network for Sustainable Design

http://www.o2.org/

Web site of an international network of designers, with some material specifically on architecture. Excellent interviews with green designers.

Institute for Sustainable Design, University of Virginia

http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~sustain/

Web site of the Institute for Sustainable Design at the University of Virginia.

Green Design Network

http://www.greendesign.net/

Web site of the Green Design Network, with "Green Clips", their news digest, as well as thorough case studies and selected papers on green design.

Environmental Building News

http://www.ebuild.com/

Environmental Building News, a newsletter on environmentally responsible design and construction.

Ecotecture

http://www.ecotecture.com/

Ecotecture is an online journal of ecological design, based in the Bay Area.

UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library, Green Design/Sustainable Architecture: Information Sources

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenBuild.html

High quality list of Green Design/Sustainable Architecture sources from the UC Berkely Environmental Design Library.

New York City High Performance Building Guidelines

http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/ddc/pdf/greentoc.pdf

High performance building guidelines put out by the New York City Department of Design and Construction.

Educating Architects for a Sustainable Environment

http://www.bsu.edu/cap/ease/

Web site outlining strategies for curriculum reform in architectural education, put together by the EASE (Educating Architects for a Sustainable Environment) project.

 

Selected Bibliography:

Architecture and Urbanism No.320 (1997:05),Sustainable Architecture/Sustainable Environment, A+U Publishing: Tokyo, 1997.

Stefan and Sophia Behling, Sol Power: The Evolution of Solar Architecture, Prestel: , 1996, Munich and New York. (ISBN 3791316702)

Thomas Herzog (Editor), Solar Energy In Architecture and Urban Planning, Prestel: 1996, Munich and New York. (ISBN 3791316524)

Ed Melet, Sustainable Architecture, NAI: Rotterdam, 1999. (ISBN 9056621181)

Andrew Scott (Editor), Dimensions of Sustainability, E & FN Spon: 1998, London. (ISBN 0419236201)

Catherine Slessor, Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology, Thames and Hudson: London, 1997. (ISBN 0500341575)

Ken Yeang, The Green Skyscraper, Prestel: 1999, Munich. (ISBN 3791319930)

Laura C. Zeiher, The Ecology of Architecture, Whitney Library of Design: New York, 1996. (ISBN 0823015963)