2.1.5
Sustainable Design Topics

Design and aesthetic systems

Human perception of sensory delight in the environment:

Jackson, J.B. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Jackson, Wes. Becoming Native to This Place. Washington D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 1994.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genus Loci: Towards A Phenomenology Of Architecture. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1980.
Pearson, David. Earth to Spirit: in search of natural architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden- Urban Nature and Human Design. Basic Books,1984.
Thayer, Robert L. Gray World, Green Heart: Technology, Nature, And The Sustainable Landscape. New York, NY: Wiley, 1994.

Social issues relating to interpretation and meaning of aesthetic experience:

Thayer, Robert L. LifePlace: Bioregional Thought And Practice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Forms of human aesthetic experience in the environment:

Heschong, Lisa. Thermal Delight in Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979.
Reynolds, John S. Courtyards-Aesthetic, Social and Thermal Delight. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Rudolfsky, Bernard. Architecture without Architects: a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture. London: Academy Editions, 1965.

Evolution of aesthetic systems:

Eglash, R. African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Techniques:

Sullivan, Chip and Marc Treib. Garden and Climate: old world techniques for landscape design. London, McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Prerequisites:

 none listed.         

(updated 1 May 2004)