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Manufacturer: ISLAND PRESS
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Ecological Design by Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan - The intentional shaping of matter, energy, and process is a hinge that connects culture and nature through exchanges of materials, flows of energy, and choices of land use. In Ecological Design, Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan present a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design. Ecological design intelligence shows how effective adaptation to and integration with nature's processes can be applied at all levels of scale, creating revolutionary forms of buildings, landscaps, cities, and technologies.

The authors weave together case studies, personal anecdotes, images and theory to provide a thorough treatment of the concept of ecological design. In the process. they present and explain a series of design principles that can help build a sustainable world with increased efficiency, fewer toxics. less pollution and healthier natural systems.

Ecological Design synthesizes the work of architects,bioregional planners, industrial engineers, artists, and others who are using ecological principles in their work. Written in a lively, nontechnical style, it links emerging trends from many fields into a coherent framework for designing sustainable systems.

Sim Van der Ryn is a professor emeritus in the department of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder and principal of Sim Van der Ryn Associates, an architectural firm specializing in ecological design. He was California State Architect and director of the State Office of Appropriate Technology, and is co-author of Sustainable Communities (Sierra Club, 1986) . Stuart Cowan, who received his PhD. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, is principal of Ecological Design Team.

# 155963-279-8 6 X 9 200 pages, tables, figures, index, paper Price: $ 17.00

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