Architecture and sustainability
Subtitle: critical perspectives for integrated design : generating sustainability concepts from architectural perspectives
By: Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
Contributors: Allacker, Karen
Publisher: Acco
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789462920880
Subjects: Sustainable architecture
Description: Architecture in its classical meaning is understood as a meaningful integration of the use (utilitas), stability (firmitas) and aesthetic beauty (venustas) through design for (re)making and (re)shaping of buildings, urban spaces and the built environment. Sustainability understood as a development paradigm aspires an integrative attitude towards the social, the economic and the environmental concerns to unfold development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." While fully acknowledging the diversity of perspectives in both domains, this book focuses upon the integrative potential of architecture and highlights the ways in which it can contribute to the further development of the sustainability paradigm.