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Green shift : towards a green sensibility in architecture
- Title
- Green shift : towards a green sensibility in architecture / John Farmer ; edited by Kenneth Richardson ; with supplementary text by Judith Farren Bradley [and others].
- Author
- Farmer, John, -1994.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NA2542.35 .F37 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Richardson, Kenneth, M.Sc.
- Description
- xvi, 203 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- A history of modern architecture as seen from a green standpoint. Published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature.
- Subject
- Note
- "Published in association with WWF-UK."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-193) and index.
- Contents
- WWF and Green Shift -- 1. Architecture: a green history for our times -- 2. Folk building -- 3. search for the origins of architecture -- 4. cult of the cottage -- 5. Ruinlust -- 6. Rocks, apes and Victorian homes -- 7. cult of childhood -- 8. John Ruskin and the idea of ecology -- 9. Ruskin and the Oxford Museum -- 10. Arts and Crafts house -- 11. architecture of natural forms -- 12. Geometric and crystalline forms -- 13. Modernism and the International Style -- 14. Organic ideas in modern architecture -- 15. England and Modernism I -- 16. England and Modernism II -- 17. ark makers -- 18. Savage present, savage past: the Herb Greene Prairie House -- 19. Green trials -- 20. Towards a green audit.
- ISBN
- 0750615303
- 9780750615303
- LCCN
- 95040532
- OCLC
- ocm33101270
- 33101270
- SCSB-2082977
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library