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Green Architecture Green Architecture is a term used to describe economical, energy-saving, environmentally-friendly, sustainable development. These resources explore the relationship between architecture and ecology, and show how you can use concepts of green design i
Architecture, Green Building Concepts - TopPicks An index of Green Building Concepts TopPicks for the Architecture guide site.
Health and the Environment: Green Architecture and Healthy Design What is Green Architecture? What is Arcology? Can our buildings really make us sick? The resources on this page explore the relationship between architecture, the environment, and health. You'll find information about eco-friendly
Green Building Concepts What is Green Architecture? What is Sustainable Architecture? What is Arcology? These resources provide an overview of ideas and philosophies related to sustainable development and the relationship between architecture and ecology.
WAL-MART WITH A GRASS ROOF? In an effort to quiet critics, Wal-Mart Canada Corp. has hired a leading "green" architecture firm to design an eco-friendly store in Vancouver. The new Wal-Mart may even have a sod roof, according to a report in Canada's National Post.What...
Green Schools: Architecture as Pedagogy
Green or high-performance K-12 schools have long been lauded by green building advocates for producing higher test scores and reducing student absenteeism....(Continue Reading) Abundant energy: New England's NESEA promotes solar power … and green buildings
Everyone's familiar with the concept of the "open house," but suppose instead of McMansions you could visit only energy-efficient homes heated ......(Continue Reading)Unsustainable promises - Not-So-Green Architecture - Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies - Brief Article
"A PARADIGM OF sustainable design," declared Landscape Architecture. "One of the most revolutionary structures of this century," gushed the Cleveland ......(Continue Reading)Conserving habitats: Kevin Pratt on green design - Architecture
IF HISTORICAL ANALOGIES offer any guidance, green design will emerge as the modernism of the new century. There is more than a passing similarity between ......(Continue Reading)Green agenda - Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century - Book Review
BIG AND GREEN: TOWARD SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Edited by David Gissen, London: Princeton Architectural Press. 2003. [pounds sterling]28 ......(Continue Reading)
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