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Clear and useful approach to thinking about sustainable architecture Apr 11, 2008
By Hal Levin
Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper have put together an extremely interesting and valuable contribution to the dialogue about what sustainable architecture is and how to think about creating sustainable buildings in a sustainable social, economic, and environmental construct. The book is richly illustrated with their own pioneering work. Ken has been doing solar architecture since well before the 1973 oil embargo and has refined his aesthetic sensibilities with the influence of a playful experimentation with materials. Their firms abundant exemplary designs are well represented yet without making the book a boast about their own accomplishments as so often the case with books by architects. Their accomplishment here is creating a framework in which to think about organizing the built environment that attempts to draw from lessons in nature. Their dedication says a lot about where they are coming from as it includes Antonio Gaudi, Hector Guimard, Rene McIntosh and Mary McDonald, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Both have done extensive teaching as well as hands own design work, and Ken has often gotten his hands into the mortar and plaster and woodwork too. The fractal theme serves as a framework for organizing an intellectually aggressive and aesthetically fascinating presentation in order to present the reality that 'everything in the universe [nature] is hitched to everything else.'
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