Author Brook Muller understands that your design tendencies influence your working methods and impact the "greeness" of your buildings. This book explains design strategies and emphasizes the importance of your poetic judgment when you're dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems. Muller also speculates architectural possibilities when ecology is embedded in the design process from conceptual phases onward, how these impact the architect's role, and how ecosystems can inspire architectural space making and order.
Author Brook Muller understands that your design tendencies influence your working methods and impact the "greeness" of your buildings. This book explains design strategies and emphasizes the importance of your poetic judgment when you're dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems. Muller also speculates architectural possibilities when ecology is embedded in the design process from conceptual phases onward, how these impact the architect's role, and how ecosystems can inspire architectural space making and order.
Brook Muller is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Ecological Design and core faculty member of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon, USA.
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Preface Introduction Part 1: Ecological Architectures Within a Broader Context 1. Intensification 2. Commons 3. Ecosystem Models Part 2: Conceptual (Eco)Architectural Constructs 4. Metaphor and Respatialization 5. Bodies 6. Furnishings 7. Landscapes and Machines Part 3: EcoArchitectural Strategies and Orders 8. Networks 9. Assembling Context 10. Continuity of Singularities 11. Watermark Epilogue: Narrating Architectural Futures Bibliography Index