CONTENT
Ilka & Andreas Ruby
Introduction
Toward a Gay Science of Construction 10
REDUCE CO2
Forrest Meggers
Reduce CO2 20
Amory B. Lovins
Saving the Climate Saves You Money
How Buildings Can Use Energy Intelligently by Integrative Design 25
Werner Sobek
Architecture Isn't Here to Stay
Toward a Reversibility of Construction 34
Sheila Kennedy / KVA Going SOFT
Design Strategies for a New Materiality of Energy 46
Bjarke Ingels/BIG The Joys of Ecolomy
How to Make Sustainability a Haven of Hedonism 55
Forrest Meggers, Hansjurg Leibundgut EOL, COP, PVT, TABS and LowEx
How to Reduce C02 Emissions with New Construction Technologies 67
Tobias Wallisser/LAVA Conditioning the Desert
How to Create Usable Outdoor Public Space in Masdar City 84
Something Fantastic
An Illustrated Index of Re-inventing Construction A-H 95
Hans-Rudolf Schalcher
Take on Complexity 123
Kazuhiro Kojima / C+A In Favor of Flow
How to Naturally Ventilate a University Campus Building in Tropical Vietnam. 127
Michel Rojkind / Rojkind Arquitectos
Building on Speed
Realizing the Nestle Chocolate Museum in Ten Weeks Without Construction Documents 134
Francisco Pardo / at103 Challenge the Standard
Reinventing Typologies and Programs for Housing and a Fire Station in Mexico City 146
Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang Architects
The Cook, the Prospector, the Nomad and their Architect
Three Approaches to Building with Local Resources 163
Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal / Lacaton & Vassal Architects
Buy One, Get One Free
Doubling the Space for the New Architecture School in Nantes 175
Peter Swinnen, Johan Anrys / 51N4E
Squaring the Circle
Building a Tower the Tirana Way 188
Minsuk Cho / Mass Studies Best Used Before
The Asian City and the Quest for a Time-specific Architecture 201
Something Fantastic
An Illustrated Index of Re-inventing Construction H-P 217