Title: Design on the edge : the making of a high-performance building /
Authors: Orr, David W., 1944-
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio); Oberlin College Buildings.; Buildings Ohio Oberlin History.
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.