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Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Environmental aspects.

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Laugier summarized the origin of architecture with a tree structure and Semper identified in the woven leaves of a Caribbean hut’s enclosure one of the essential elements of inhabitation. Plants have been part of architecture from its very origin and they are to be found in several building traditions that are now being incorporated into contemporary practice to profit from their thermal qualities, their availability and their low environmental footprint. The vernacular lessons of Swedish stugas and Asturian teitos have common principles with the green roofs such as those at the California Academy of Sciences, by Renzo Piano, which allow to replace air-conditioning by natural ventilation to a great extent; further, the enclosures of woven reed and cane of Iraqi mudhifs or Peruvian quinchas have evolved into more sophisticated facades of pressed straw or algae, as in the SolarLeaf project in Hamburg (Germany), by Arup; finally, the South Asian tradition of hanging bridges made out of aerial roots has been up-dated by Baubotanik, the German research group which designs load-bearing structures with living trees. From vernacular tradition to contemporary innovation, this book explores the theoretical and technical implications of the role played by plants in the configuration of inhabited space.

Plants in architecture --- Architecture --- Environmental aspects

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Today's challenge is to manage the Dutch cultural-historical heritage, while adding products of permanent value to it. This is only possible when all the partners in the building process, principals, governments, designers and users, fully comprehend the importance of architectural quality.

Architecture and state --- Netherlands --- Architecture --- Environmental aspects --- City planning --- History

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Marine resources conservation --- Natural history --- Natural history --- Oil spills --- Persian Gulf War, 1991 --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Maḥmīyat al-Jubayl lil-Ihyāʼ al-Baḥrīyah (Saudi Arabia).

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Sustainability is not a passing fashion, and people are constantly searching for more information, products and innovations in this area. Designers, in turn, are responding with elegant, efficient, low-impact products that look towards a sustainable future. This book brings together over 100 such innovative and award-winning projects from over 20 countries, launched by leading design offices and companies worldwide, including IDEO, IBM, and New Deal Design.

Industrial design --- Sustainable design. --- Commercial products --- Product design --- Design --- Ecoconception --- Produits commerciaux --- Conception de produit --- Environmental aspects --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Product design. --- Environmental aspects. --- Développement durable --- Ecologie appliquée --- Sustainable design --- 745.039 --- design --- design en ecologie --- ecologie --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- productdesign --- 745.02 --- 745.4 --- duurzaam design --- duurzaam ontwerpen --- ecodesign --- 772.9 --- productontwikkeling, productdesign --- productdesign, afzonderlijke voorwerpen --- Green design --- New products --- Commodities --- Economic goods --- Merchandise --- Products, Commercial --- Commodity exchanges --- Manufactures --- Substitute products --- Design and construction --- Contracting out --- Product strategy --- design [discipline] --- industrial design --- durability --- three-dimensional --- Industrial design - Environmental aspects --- Commercial products - Environmental aspects --- productontwikkeling