Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Earthweek is a weekly newsource providing information about innovations and new discoveries in the earth sciences. This unique site is comprehensive, focusing on biological, geographical, geological, and meteorological topics that effect not only our daily life but our continued cultural and evolutionary existence. Climate change and issues of sustainability are paramount, though stories about the increasing rate of birth defects in Iraq following the 2003 invasion and pigeons with a pension for good art creep in too. The interactive map located on the site’s home page uses geography to link to Earthweek’s most current stories while providing a geographical context.
Tags: biology, climate, climate change, earth science, Earthweek, ecology, environment, geography, geology, interactive map, meteorology, sustainability
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 21, 2009 in words | No Comments »
Shangri-la Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas, Photo Courtesy of Hester + Hardaway Photography
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects and chose ten that represent the most innovative examples of green building. The website consists of a search-able database with detailed information about each building’s design process, cost, land use, water conservation, energy use, materials, and LEED ratings.
Tags: green, green architecture, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Joan Winter on November 20, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
TED’s A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
Tags: climate change, food culture, green building, sustainability, sustainable design, TED, urban, urban design, urban planning, urban renewal, urbanism, video
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 3, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, behold, copyright, digital images, fair use, Flickr, landscape, photographs, photography, sustainability, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, copyright, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
TED conferences and its subsidiary the TEDTalks video website “has a love affair with buildings.” Featuring over 21 conference videos on its Architectural Inspiration page, TED has assembled thematic discussions from Moshe Safdie, Nathaniel Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and more focusing on sustainability, historicism, food culture, and uniqueness as it relates to the built environment and design inspiration.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, criticism, food culture, historicism, modern architecture, modernism, planning, romanticism, streaming video, sustainability, TED, urban design, urbanism, videos
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 22, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
LeedVisuual “synthesizes information about USGBC’s credits into pictorial format.”
The site breaks down the credits – whether water efficient landscaping or innovation in design - and presents infographics that make the accreditation process easy to understand and therefore achieve.
Tags: green, green architecture, green building, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design, USGBC
Posted by Joan Winter on October 16, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
Death by Architecture assembles current information about a broad spectrum of architectural competitions in addition to hosting an extensive resource list linking to blogs and other sites featuring information about design, materials, and construction.
Tags: architecture, competitions, design resources, lanscape architecture, professional resources, sustainability, sustainable design, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 7, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
Nonprofit media organization Worldchanging asks “What does it mean to build bright green structures for the 21st Century?” This online writer/journalist collective focuses on chronicling and questioning architectural, community planning, political, and corporate methods of affecting environmental and social change across the globe.
Tags: green building, sustainability, sustainable design, Worldchanging
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 6, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
Places is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and its impact on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. On October 5th, Places will assume a fully web-based, open-access format. Places online will publish peer-reviewed scholarship as well as topical commentary, observations, reviews, and visual portfolios that focus on “public spaces in the service of shared and egalitarian ideals of society” and explore “the highest standards of public responsibility and design.”
Tags: academic journal, architectural history, architecture, design history, Design Observer Group, landscape architecture, Places, sustainability, urban design, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 5, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, landscape | No Comments »
Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit design services firm building a more sustainable future through the power of professional design. A network of more than 40,000 professionals work with communities around the world on site specific projects from a basketball court with an integrated rainwater collection system in Mahiga, Kenya to housing projects in Biloxi, Mississippi in response to damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Architecture for Humanity also promotes the proliferation of sustainable architecture through chapter projects, competitions and workshops.
Tags: competitions, green building, humanitarianism, non-profit, Professional Associations, professional development, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 2, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
All Posts RSS Feed
