Title & Author:

Sorry, out of gas : architecture's response to the 1973 oil crisis / edited by Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini ; with contributions by Adam Bobbette [and others] ; with an illustrated tale by Harriet Russell.

Publication:

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Montova, Italy : Corraini Edizioni, ©2007.

Description:

235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Issued also in French under title: Désolé, plus d'essence.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Nov. 7, 2007-Apr. 20, 2008.
Published also in French under title: Désolé, plus d'essence : l'innovation architecturale en réponse à la crise pétrolière de 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An endangered species / Harriet Russell -- Think different / Mirko Zardini -- Oil : 17 October 1973 ; A new austerity ; World leaders react ; Topical games -- Sun : Solar in the laboratory ; Pioneering experiments ; A solar first ; Portraits of solar in 1975 ; Do-it-yourself solar -- Jimmy Carter takes a stand ; Innovation: the thermal window ; Innovation: the Trombe wall ; Steve Baer: democratizing solar ; An American version of the Trombe wall ; Michael Jantzen: solar high-tech ; The shift to passive solar ; O.M. Ungers: solar on an urban scale -- In the footsteps of the counter-culture / Caroline Maniaque -- Earth : Using the earth for shelter ; Underground space center ; Malcolm Wells: architecture and nature ; Michael Reynolds: creative recycling ; Ecology house: aesthetics of green ; Jay Swayze: underground visions ; The energy crisis and super-insulation -- Wind : Wind power and energy self-sufficiency ; An urban experiment: 519 East 11th Street ; An urban experiment: NYU ; Windworks: energy for everybody -- Integrated systems : Buckminster Fuller and World game ; Ecol operation ; Alternative technologies and publications on energy ; Centre for Alternative Technology ; Integrated Life Support Systems Laboratories ; New Alchemy Institute ; The Ouroboros Project ; Farallones Institute.
Includes a section on the Ecol House, Montréal.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Includes mentions of Phyllis Lambert.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibitions:

Catalogue of an exhibition '1973: Sorry, Out of Gas' held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Nov. 7, 2007 to Apr. 20, 2008.

ISBN:

9780920785782 (CCA)
0920785786 (CCA)
9788875701437 (Corraini Edizioni)
8875701431 (Corraini Edizioni)

Subject:

Architecture and energy conservation Exhibitions.
Architecture Technological innovations Exhibitions.
Energy conservation Exhibitions.
Architecture et économies d'énergie Expositions.
Économies d'énergie Expositions.
Architecture and energy conservation.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Energy conservation.
Architecture and energy conservation History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture and energy conservation History 20th century North America Exhibitions.
Architecture and energy conservation History 20th century United States Exhibitions.
Architecture Technological innovations History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Technological innovations History 20th century North America Exhibitions.
Architecture Technological innovations History 20th century United States Exhibitions.
Energy conservation History 20th century Exhibitions.
Energy conservation History 20th century North America Exhibitions.
Energy conservation History 20th century United States Exhibitions.
Ecol House (Montréal, Québec)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-
Zardini, Mirko.
Bobbette, Adam, 1980-
Russell, Harriet, 1977-
Der Kaloustian, Daria
Latouche, Pierre-Edouard
Maniaque Benton, Caroline
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Lambert, Phyllis

Architecture's response to the 1973 oil crisis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254246
Call No.: NA2542.3 .S67 2007
Copy: c. 4
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 253874
Call No.: NA2542.3 .S67 2007
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 254245
Call No.: 2007-6
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 253873
Call No.: 2007-6
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available