An in-depth interview with author Carl Stein and review of Greening Modernism on Architects + Artisans. Also, see the slide-show of images from the book.
“It’s one of those topics that I find very hard to boil down into short, concise pieces,” said Carl Stein of his new book, “Greening Modernism,” from W. W. Norton Company.
And for good reason. It’s a complex subject, but tackled head-on by an architect who’s worked on projects ranging from a one-million-square-foot building in Shanghai, to the the restoration of Shepard Hall at City College of New York, to the AIA-award-winning South Jamaica Branch Library there. Continue reading
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 →