Title:	The Green Braid Towards an architecture of ecology, economy, and equity
Authors:	Longoria, Rafael
Keywords:	Towards an architecture of ecology, economy, and equity
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	in the USA and Canada
Description:	The book has five sections. The first, “Meta-discourses in Pedagogy and Practice” focuses on the architecture curriculum and the role academic architects play in framing the sustainability discourse through their own teaching and practice. The second, “Phenomena and Technology” links the sensuous and the mechanical, with the goal of recognizing the earth’s elements as poetic design opportunities and functional constraints at the same time. The third, “Building Practices” focuses on atypical, sometimes marginalized, sometimes romanticized, ways of fabricating architecture. It provides evi- dence that changing a paradigm requires action in addition to reflection, and that a sustainable practice is one that, even more than most, sees constraints as opportunities. The fourth, “Settlement Patterns,” recognizes the crucial role location, spatial and political organization inevitably play in large scale developments’ sustainability. No amount of “greening” can compensate for a disconnected, polluted or unjust development pattern. The fifth, “The Shared Realm,” articulates most clearly the role architects play as part of a network of collaborators. These collaborators, the authors argue, include far more than consultants in allied fields. All people who have lived or will live amidst our creations are equally a part of each project’s construction, and to some degree, we must make their desires ours for a project to succeed.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/47490
ISBN:	0-203-96488-8
Appears in Collections:	Architecture

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