TY - GEN AU - Sang, Lee Ed. TI - Aesthetics of sustainable architecture SN - 9789064507526 U1 - 720.47 PY - 2011/// CY - Rotterdam PB - 010 publishers N1 - CONTENTS Foreword 6 Introduction 7 The Aesthetics of Architectural Consumption 26 Glen Hill What Does Sustainability Look Like? 41 Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton Solar Aesthetic 50 Ralph L. Knowles The Architecture of the Passively Tempered Environment 66 Keith Bothwell Qualitative and Quantitative Traditions in Sustainable Design 80 John Brennan Urbanization and Discontents: Megaform and Sustainability 97 Kenneth Frampton Landscape Aesthetics for Sustainable Architecture 109 Daniel Jauslin Building Envelope as Surface 120 Sang Lee and Stefanie Holzheu The Sustainable Indigenous Vernacular: Interrogating a Myth 134 Nezar AlSayyad and Gabriel Arboleda The Qanats in Yazd: The Dilemmas of Sustainability & Conservation 152 Vinayak Bharne The Vernacular, the Iconic and the Fake 168 Harald N. Rostivk Natural Architecture 179 Kengo Kuma The Concept and Aesthetics of Sustainable Building in Japan 186 Minna Sunikka-BlankDurability in Housing - The Aesthetics of the Ordinary 198 Marie Antoinette Glaser Environmental Issues as Context 213 Elisabetta Pero Magic, Inc. - Refraining the City 227 Matthew Skjonsberg Constructing Sensuous Ecologies: Beyond The Energy Efficiency And Zero-Carbon Argument 243 Giancarlo Mangone and Patrick Teuffel Symbiosis and Mimesis in the Built Environment 259 Luca Finocchicaro and Anne Grete Hestnes Aesthetic Potentials in an Open Network Inventory System 272 David Briggs Notes 285 Contributors 311 Acknowledgements 315 ER -