Contal, Marie-Hélène.

Sustainable design : towards a new ethic in architecture and town planning / Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin ; with a foreword by Thomas Herzog. - Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, c2009. - 179 p. : ill. (some col.), plans (some col.) ; 29 cm.

"Winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2007, ... 2008"--P. [4, 5].

Includes bibliographical references.

Stefan Behnisch, Stuttgart, Germany -- Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India -- Françoise-Héléne Jourda, Paris France -- Hermann Kaufmann, Schwarzach, Austria -- Wang Shu, Hangzhou, China -- Fabrizio Carola, Naples, Italy -- Elemental, Santiago, Chile -- Rural Studio, Newbern, Alabama, USA -- Philippe Samyn, Brussels, Belgium -- Carin Smuts, Cape Town, South Africa.


Translation from French: Elizabeth Kugler; translation from German: Julian Reisenberger.

9783764399382 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 3764399384 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

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Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)--Awards.


Sustainable architecture--Awards.
Sustainable urban development--Awards.
Preisträger.
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.

NA2542.36 / .C65 2009

720.47
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