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Design for Life

The Architecture of Sim Van Der Ryn

By: Sim Van der Ryn

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Design for Life

The Architecture of Sim Van Der Ryn

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Design for Life: The Architecture of Sim Van der Ryn surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, one of the world's most important leaders in the field of sustainalbe architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems. Fleeing Holland just weeks before Hitler's invasion, the Van der Ryn family settled in the outskirts of New York City. Young Sim grew up exploring the tiny pockets of grass, puddles, and swamps he found in Queens. An avid high school art student, he progressed to studying architecture in college. But he found the pervading modernist-style buildings to be emotionally cold and lacking human sensitivity. He longed for a way to restore architecture back to life. His breakthrough came during the frequent campus visits of R. Buckminster Fuller, who inspired him to think and design with the geometries of the natural world. Design for Life shows how the young architect began to look at the world with new eyes and saw the shifting patterns in nature and how these patterns profoundly affect how we live and work in the structures we build. Using his own projects and teaching experiences as examples, the author reveals the evolution of his thinking and the emergence of a new process of collaborative design that honors the buildings' users and connects them to the Earth. The book shows how architecture has created physical and mental barriers that separate us from our world, but how we can recover the soul of architecture and reconnect with our natural surroundings. Sim Van der Ryn is the president of Van der Ryn Architects, a Northern California firm known for its work in sustainable architecture. He taught architecture and design at the University of California, Berkeley, for over 30 years, inspiring a new generation to create buildings and communities that are sensitive to place, climate, and the flow of human interactions. Appointed California State Architect in the 1970s by then-Governor Jerry Brown, Van der Ryn introduced the nation's first energy-efficient government building projects. His vision and persuasive skills heralded a golden age of ecologically sensitive design and resulted in the adoption of strict energy standards and disability access standards for all state buildings and parks. As the author of six groundbreaking books about planning and design, including Sustainable Communities (1986, with Peter Calthorpe), Ecological Design (1996, with Stuart Cowan) and numerous articles, Van der Ryn has helped inspire architects to see the myriad ways they can apply physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design. The author lives and works in Northern California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

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Gibbs Smith

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1586855301

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Culture, Architecture and Nature

An Ecological Design Retrospective

By: Sim Van der Ryn

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Culture, Architecture and Nature

An Ecological Design Retrospective

By: Sim Van der Ryn

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design, beginning with the most recent years and looking back to the 1960s. With an introductory chapter and further recommended reading for each decade, this book is key reading for any architect or designer practising today, and students will find a wealth of knowledge with which to support their studies. The author’s beautiful illustrations, painted in a corresponding timescale to the chapters, offer further insight into the way he understands the challenges of humanity’s stewardship of our planet.

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Routledge

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1134632894

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Design for Life

The Architecture of Sim Van Der Ryn

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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan

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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan

Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, Ecological Design provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse.

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Island Press

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1597265977

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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan

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By: Sim Van der Ryn,Stuart Cowan

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The Toilet Papers

Recycling Waste and Conserving Water

By: Sim Van Der Ryn

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The Toilet Papers

Recycling Waste and Conserving Water

By: Sim Van Der Ryn

A classic is back in print! One of the favorite books of 1970s back-to-the-landers, The Toilet Papers is an informative, inspiring, and irreverent look at how people have dealt with their wastes through the centuries. In a historical survey, Van der Ryn provides the basic facts concerning human wastes, and describes safe designs for toilets that reduce water consumption and avert the necessity for expensive and unreliable treatment systems. The Toilet Papers provides do-it-yourself plans for a basic compost privy and a variety of graywater systems.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603581308

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Culture, Architecture and Nature

An Ecological Design Retrospective

By: Sim Van der Ryn

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An Ecological Design Retrospective

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The Toilet Papers

Recycling Waste and Conserving Water

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Recycling Waste and Conserving Water

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The Integral Urban House

Self Reliant Living in the City

By: Sim Van Der Ryn,Helga Olkowski,Tom Javits,Farallones Institute

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The Integral Urban House

Self Reliant Living in the City

By: Sim Van Der Ryn,Helga Olkowski,Tom Javits,Farallones Institute

With its vision of an intimate connection between the urban habitat and ecological principles The Integral Urban House will inspire and empower people to act within their own communities to create places where they can live more sustainably.

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1897408161

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Book's by Sim Van der Ryn

Design for Life

Design for Life

Culture, Architecture and Nature

Culture, Architecture and Nature

Design for Life

Design for Life

Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

The Toilet Papers

The Toilet Papers

Culture, Architecture and Nature

Culture, Architecture and Nature

The Toilet Papers

The Toilet Papers

The Integral Urban House

The Integral Urban House

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