Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision-sustainability-to guide their practices.\ \ In Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, a diverse group of contributors considers the concept of sustainability, both philosophically and...
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The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision-sustainability-to guide their practices. In Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, a diverse group of contributors considers the concept of sustainability, both philosophically and practically. Some take a broad view of the divisions between nature and humanity, exploring the incomprehensible scale of human intervention in the natural world, the relationship between how we feel about nature and what we do about it, and the commodification of the natural world. Other essays focus on sustainable design practices: sustainability’s roots in the American conservation tradition, its utility as a framework for future design practice, and the necessity of moving beyond demonstration projects into the mainstream. Together, these essays suggest that the gap between the promise and reality of sustainable design, although significant, can be bridged through diligence and practice. Contributors: D. Michelle Addington, Yale U; John Beardsley, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Albert Borgmann, U of Montana, Missoula; Peter Buchanan; Peter Del Tredici, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Robert France, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Susannah Hagan, U of East London; Kristina Hill, U of Virginia; Catherine Howett, U of Georgia; Niall Kirkwood, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Lucy R. Lippard; Bill McKibbin; Michael Pollan; Rossana Vaccarino,Vaccarino Associates, St. Thomas. William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazineand assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is editor of five previous Harvard Design Magazine Readers published by the University of Minnesota Press. Robert L. Thayer Jr. is emeritus professor of landscape architecture and founder of the landscape architecture program at the University of California, Davis.
I Imagining nature1 The destitution of space : from cosmic order to cyber disorientation Albert Borgmann Borgmann, Albert 32 Humans supplant god, everything changes Bill McKibben McKibben, Bill 173 Too much : the Grand Canyon(s) Lucy R. Lippard Lippard, Lucy R. 234 What do we make of nature now? Catherine Howett Howett, Catherine 365 Kiss nature goodbye : marketing the great outdoors John Beardsley Beardsley, John 536 Beyond the wilderness and lawn Michael Pollan Pollan, Michael 66II Designing (for) nature7 Nature used and abused : politics and rhetoric in American preservation and conservation Rossana Vaccarino Vaccarino, Rossana 858 Five reasons to adopt environmental design Susannah Hagan Hagan, Susannah 1009 Invitation to the dance : sustainability and the expanded realm of design Peter Buchanan Buchanan, Peter 11410 Green world, gray heart? : the promise and reality of landscape architecture in sustaining nature Robert France France, Robert 13311 Green good, better, and best : effective ecological design in cities Kristina Hill Hill, Kristina 14512 Energy, body, building : rethinking sustainable design solutions Michelle Addington Addington, Michelle 15713 Here come the hyperaccumulators! : cleaning toxic sites from the roots up Niall Kirkwood Kirkwood, Niall 17014 Neocreationism and the illusion of ecological restoration Peter Del Tredici Del Tredici, Peter 17915 A word for landscape architecture John Beardsley Beardsley, John 185
