By reducing green design to a set of checklists that are then used as shopping lists, LEED and similar environmental rating systems may actually increase consumption. And by turning sustainability into the province of consultants, such systems take the responsibility for making buildings ecologically sound out of the hands of architects.
It didn’t have to be that way, Kevin Bone makes clear in this important new book. The outgrowth of a 2013 exhibition at New York’s Cooper Union, where Bone is the director of the Institute for Sustainable Design, it demonstrates that many significant Modernist buildings were green by virtue of their small size and sensitive siting. The format of the book is simple: 25 buildings are presented in photographs, renderings, and diagrams showing how the structures relate to sun position and prevailing winds.
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