Green Shift
Subtitle: Changing Attitudes in Architecture to the Natural World
Contributors: Kenneth Richardson (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Architectural Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780750643405
Subjects: Architecture And The Environment; Architecture; Environmental Engineering & Technology; History - General; Reference; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Theory of architecture; Design & Drafting; Ecology; Environmental aspects
First sentence: This book is an account of how buildings from the eighteenth century to the present time have reflected the momentous changes that have occurred in our perceptions of the natural world and of our place in it.
Description: "An account of how changes in our understanding of nature have continually affected architecture, culminating in the emergence of green design; an alternative reading of the development of modern architecture, which shifts our perspective and puts current green thinking in context."--Jacket.