From the review by Taylor Griggs:
Carl Stein’s New Book, Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement, raises discussion about the connection between sustainable practices and modern architecture. Through addressing the environmental impacts of building decisions, the author argues the inherent sustainability in Modernist design. Focusing upon the importance of preserving and reusing historical buildings as a key sustainability strategy, Greening Modernism serves as a resource for architects, engineers, urban planners, as well as environmentalists. To support his case, Stein provides quantitative data to support the reintegration of modernist strategies, through reducing our dependency on finite resources, such as petroleum. The book rings clear with the sentiment that through understanding the environmental importance of their decisions, architects can continue their practice while doing their part to save the planet.
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Why are there so few sustainable buildings?
Tom Zeller has posted an interesting piece on the NY Times “Green” Blog titled “When Green Building Is Not Green Enough” concerning, among other things, the difficulty in stimulating widespread support for sustainable building policies.? I replied:
Mr. Zeller writes that ?the nation?s building stock plays a bigger role in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions than many Americans might realize.? This is only true (a) because many Americans have chosen to ignore information that has been widely available for at least four decades and (b) powerful business and social interests have conducted a massive campaign of misinformation in order to maintain positions of economic and political power. Continue reading →