sustainable design

Balancing environmental, ethical, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and has already dramatically reshaped the practice of architecture. Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art.

• aesthetic concerns
• aesthetic sensibilities
• contemporary art
• critical approaches
• design strategy
• dissemination
• dramatically
• environmentalists
• everyday life
• exhibition curator
• historian
• intentionally
• international artists
• intersection
• new generation
• practitioners
• stephanie smith
• substantial essays
• sustainable design
• victor margolin

The green buildings featured in this book are at the forefront of considerable change in the culture of new building and development, and demonstrate that sustainable design does not have to be an added cost, but can provide significant added benefits.

• added benefits
• forefront
• sustainable design

· Presents and develops theory into practice through worked design examples

• aesthetic experience
• challenges
• complexity
• design criteria
• ephemeral
• experimental design
• functional objects
• intellectual
• material culture
• personal design
• physical expression
• relationship
• sustainability
• sustainable design
• tacit knowledge
• vital concepts

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes.

• architects
• arid deserts
• chapter features
• christopher hawthorne
• climactic zones
• downtown manhattan
• glenn murcutt
• green house
• heretofore
• indispensable reference
• joy lake
• kengo kuma
• lake flato
• pugh scarpa
• santiago calatrava
• shigeru ban
• sustainable design
• tropical beaches
• tropical desert
• werner sobek

Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field?

• activism
• architects
• consumer choices
• design industry
• designers
• environmental causes
• gender studies
• gould
• implications
• informal conversations
• kira
• policymakers
• something unique
• sustainable design
• voices