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Inclui os nomes: James Wines, James N. Wines

Obras por James Wines

De-Architecture (1987) 31 exemplares
Site (1989) 15 exemplares

Associated Works

Malaparte: A House Like Me (1999) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1932
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Educação
Syracuse University
Ocupações
architect
sculptor
graphic designer
Organizações
SITE (founder)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Guggenheim Fellowship (1962)

Membros

Críticas

shelved at: (R) : Sustainability
 
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PeterKent2015 | 3 outras críticas | Feb 14, 2016 |
shelved at: (R) : Sustainability
 
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mwbooks | 3 outras críticas | Jan 22, 2016 |
Years after I bought this book by James "SITE" Wines, I saw the outspoken architect lecture (I wrote about some of his talk here) when he asserted that he was practicing "green architecture" before it was a thing, before it could be labelled as such, before it became popular with mainstream architects. But he didn't do it by building earth-berm houses or the like in the 70s; he designed temporary structures and art installations that merged art, architecture and landscape in ways that others weren't doing at the time. One of his BEST Showrooms, in fact, was "green" in that it had a zone of trees between the detached facade and the showroom proper (it is now a church). So it makes some sense that Wines would pen a book of green architecture, reaching back far in time but focusing on recent exemplars of environmental architecture. The latter is not made up of LEED-accredited buildings or other mainstream examples, but instead follows his alternative means of seeing how architecture and landscape can relate, both intellectually and formally. His prose is not the most graceful, but the book is a good one for this clear eye for good green architecture and the strength of his convictions.… (mais)
 
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archidose | 3 outras críticas | Apr 12, 2015 |
Monograph Library - shelved at: (R) - Sustainability
 
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HT.LibraryBooks | 3 outras críticas | Mar 9, 2017 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
4
Also by
1
Membros
246
Popularidade
#92,613
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
4
ISBN
14
Línguas
2

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