Title & Author:

Innovations durables : une autre architecture française = Appropriate sustainabilities : new ways in French architecture / [edited by] Marc Emery ; [translation from French into English, Gerald B. Binding].

Publication:

Paris : Ante Prima Consultants ; Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2002.

Description:

144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).
[Pt. 1] Introduction: -- The foundations of a partnership : history of the partnership between architects and the research engineers of the EDF Group / Jean-Pol Machet -- Technological innovation and new architecture : history and future prospects / Marc Emery -- [Pt. 2] Towards a new architecture: -- Wind and tide energy : refitting the submarine base of Kéroman. Lorient / Francis Soler -- Sustainability, a proposal : a building of the future / Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec -- [Un]plug building : an office building. Paris-La-Défense / François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux -- Unobtrusive sustainability : the headquarters of an international organisation. Geneva / Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart -- Sociology, architecture and technologies : collective housing in Marseille / François Seigneur and Sylvie de la Dure -- [Pt. 3] Research and thinking: -- From the concept car to the concept office : new workplaces / Jacques Ferrier -- Prior assessment of high environmental quality projects : the professional way / Gilles Bouchez -- Structures, lighting and other amazing topics : some thoughts / Marc Mimram -- Rethinking the museum : identity and local culture / François Chochon, with Frédérique Paoletti and Catherine Rouland -- [Pt. 4] Contemporary projects: -- Thoughts on high environmental quality (HEQ) : collective housing. Rennes / Manuelle Gautrand -- Architectural expression and sustainable development : sustainable social housing. Rennes / Jean-Yves Barrier -- Architecture and sustainable development : architecture is built to Carry Meaning / Christian Hauvette -- Towards an architecture of light : the Regional Municipal Library. Marseille / Adrien Fainsilber -- An architectural presence : the media centre. Troyes / Dominique Lyon and Pierre du Besset.
English and French.

Summary:

"Architecture and technologies are closely linked, even though they develop with different rhythms. Their relationship is therefore complex, and the to-and-fro between them punctuates the whole history of architecture. In spite of their rationalist discourse, modern movements have never understood how or been able to bring them both together, and this dichotomy is even more evident today, when contemporary architecture only rarely makes use of the increasingly sophisticated technologies, especially those relating to energy saving, sustainability and respect for the natural environment. The evidence is there in the extraordinary lack of architectural formulations that incorporate solar rollector systems, or of projects that make any ecological claims. This absence is not total. Some architects are interested in the so-called "alternative" technologies and have absorbed them in order to develop projects for sustainable units and High Environmental Quality buildings. The formulations are varied, sometimes spectacular, but never gratuitous - a sign of the maturity of a new generation of architects and of the birth of an architecture that can answer better to the worries of an age seeking to preserve its future, This is the message of this book, which shows that although the discipline of architecture always expresses its own time, it can also look to the future. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3764367385 (acid-free paper)
9783764367381 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Sustainable architecture France.
Architecture durable France.
Sustainable architecture.
France.

Added entries:

Emery, Marc.

Appropriate sustainabilities : new ways in French architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226632
Call No.: NA2542.36 .I58 2002
Status: Available