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Terms and conditions applyDesign For Life: the Architecture of Sim Van Der Ryn
Sim van der Ryn
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Format: Unknown
Pages: 184
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Date Published: Feb 2006
Stock Code: 55717
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Design for Life: The Architecture of Sim Van der Ryn surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems.
Design for Life illustrates how Van der Ryn came to see the shifting patterns in nature and how these patterns profoundly affect how people live and work in the structures we build. Van der Ryn explores how architecture has created physical and mental barriers that separate people from the natural world, and how to recover the soul of architecture and reconnect with our natural surroundings.
Van der Ryn, whose northern California firm is known worldwide for its work in sustainable architecture, traces his life and career from his family's 1939 flight to the U.S., through the influence of Buckminster Fuller and his career as California State Architect, to the inspirational experience of teaching a new generation of architecture students to create buildings and communities that are sensitive to place, climate, and the flow of human interactions. The book is well illustrated with examples of his work, and his patient, humane intelligence shines through.
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