Sustainable Design:
Ecology, Architecture and Planning
Meeting the
Challenges of Sustainable Design for Architects, Planners, Landscape
Architects, Engineers and Public Officials
By Daniel E. Williams,
David W. Orr, Donald Watson
Understanding the
Issues of Sustainable Design, Illustrated with Conceptual and Case
Studies
 Meeting
the Challenge of Sustainable Design
"Daniel Williams's Sustainable Design is . . . a thoroughly
practical call for the design professions to take the next steps
toward transformation of the human prospect toward a future that is
sustainable and sustaining of the best in human life lived in
partnership not domination."
--From the Foreword by David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished
Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the
Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College
"In this pioneering book, Daniel Williams
provides the sort of intelligent, thoughtful, experienced insights
that--if followed--will ensure that we make the right choices. It
should be on the desk of every architect in the world." --Denis
Hayes, president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation and coordinator
of the first Earth Day in 1970
Architects identify "sustainability" as the
most important change in the future of their profession. Sustainable
Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical,
comprehensive guide to design and plan a built environment
compatible with the region's economic, social, and ecological
patterns.
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges
professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not
as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential
to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology.
Comprehensive in scope, Sustainable Design
answers key questions such as:
- How do I begin thinking and designing
ecologically?
- What is the difference between "green
design" and "sustainable design"?
- What are some examples of effective
change I can make that will have the most impact for the least
cost?
Written for architects, planners, landscape
architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent
professionals, this important resource defines the issues of
sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and
provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central
focus of architects' and urban planners' work.
Williams's book features winning projects from
the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Top Ten award program.
About The Authors:
Daniel E. Williams, FAIA, a Seattle-based architect and urban
planner, is a nationally recognized expert in sustainable
architecture and planning. Williams was the 2003 chair of the AIA's
Committee on the Environment (COTE), and he chaired the AIA
Sustainable Task Group in 2006. His projects, which range from
residences to regional plans, connect ecology, economic development,
transportation, agriculture, education, and natural resource
protection.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by David W. Orr.
Foreword by Donald Watson, FAIA.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part 1.
CHAPTER ONE: The Ecological Model.
- Ecology.
- Ecology as a Model.
- Waste Debts.
- The Value of Land.
- Paradigm Shift.
- Thinking as a System: Connectivity, Not Fragmentation.
CHAPTER TWO: Sustainable Design.
- Where Do We Want to Go?
- Design Matters.
- Why Architects?
- Green Design versus Sustainable Design.
- Why Now?
- Approaching Sustainability.
- Place-Based Energy and Resources.
- Principles for Designing Sustainably.
- Where to Start?
CHAPTER THREE: Regional Design.
- Evolving from Nonrenewables.
- Another Weak Link: The Power Grid.
- The Regional Design.
- Water: A Common Denominator.
- Make No Small Plans.
- The Regional Design Process.
- Regional Case Studies.
- Cache Valley, Utah.
- Farmington, Minnesota: Building within the Community
Watershed.
- Smart Growth: Southeast Florida Coastal Communities.
CHAPTER FOUR: Sustainable Urban and Community Design.
- A Matter of Place.
- Principles for Sustainable Communities.
- Regional Ecology and Biourbanism.
- Sustainable Urban and Community Case Studies.
- Lessons from Belle Glade: Can We Save the Everglades and
Sustain Agriculture?
- Rio Nuevo Master Plan.
- Growing the Great River Park.
CHAPTER FIVE: Architectural Design.
- The Site: Challenges and Opportunities.
- Site Design and Environmental Analysis.
- Sustainable Infrastructure.
- The Skin.
- Evolving a Sustainable Design Practice.
- Sustainable Design and Existing Buildings.
- Sustainable Interior Architecture.
Part 2.
CHAPTER SIX: The AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Program.
- 1997 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 1998 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 1999 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2000 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2001 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2002 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2003 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2004 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2005 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
- 2006 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects.
Afterword.
Sustainability Terms.
Bibliography.
Index.
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Index (PDF)
Photo Credits
Hard-cover,
304 pages
Published 2007
ISBN: 978-0-471-70953-4
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