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Design on the edge: The making of the high performance building/ David W. Orr

By: Orr, David WMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge: MIT, 2008Description: 272 pISBN: 9780262651127Subject(s): Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio) | Oberlin College -- Buildings | Oberlin CollegeDDC classification: 727.3077123

Contents:

I. Context: A meditation on building -- The origins of ecological design -- The design revolution: notes for practitioners -- II. Building: Origins -- The building -- Landscapes: monologues to dialogues -- The gift must must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving, and receiving -- III. Evolution: The politics of institutional change -- Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning -- The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world -- IV. Pedagogy: The origins of the ideas -- The green campus movement -- The rest of the story -- Appendix A. Oberlin College environmental policy.

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I. Context: A meditation on building --
The origins of ecological design --
The design revolution: notes for practitioners --
II. Building: Origins --
The building --
Landscapes: monologues to dialogues --
The gift must must move: reflections on costs, economics, giving, and receiving --
III. Evolution: The politics of institutional change --
Planning to learn: a digression on institutional learning --
The political economy of buildings in the postpetroleum world --
IV. Pedagogy: The origins of the ideas --
The green campus movement --
The rest of the story --
Appendix A. Oberlin College environmental policy.

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