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Understanding Sustainable

Architecture

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs,

goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more)

sustainable buildings and other built developments.

Much of the available advice and rhetoric about sustainable architecture

begins from positions where important ethical, cultural and conceptual issues

are simply assumed. If sustainable architecture is to be a truly meaningful pursuit

then it must be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework. This book sets

out to provide that framework. Through a series of self-reﬂective questions for

designers, the authors argue the ultimate importance of reasoned argument in

ecological, social and built contexts, including clarity in the problem framing

and linking this framing to demonstrably effective actions. Sustainable architec-

ture, then, is seen as a revised conceptualization of architecture in response to a

myriad of contemporary concerns about the effects of human activity.

The aim of this book is to be transformative by promoting understanding and

discussion of commonly ignored assumptions behind the search for a more envir-

onmentally sustainable approach to development. It is argued that design deci-

sions must be based on both an ethical position and a coherent understanding

of the objectives and systems involved. The actions of individual designers and

appropriate broader policy settings both follow from this understanding.

Terry Williamson was educated in engineering and architecture in Australia

and is Dean of the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban

Design at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Antony Radford was educated

in architecture and planning in the United Kingdom and is Professor of Archi-

tecture at the University of Adelaide. Helen Bennetts was educated in archi-

tecture in Australia and, after researching how architects actually use information

in seeking to produce environmentally responsible buildings, now concentrates

on the family business of wine- and cheese-making. All three have taught,

researched and published in areas of energy, environment and sustainability.

This book draws particularly on their development and teaching of a new course

called Issues in Urban and Landscape Sustainability.

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Understanding

Sustainable

Architecture

Terry Williamson,

Antony Radford

and Helen Bennetts

London and New York

First published 2003 by Spon Press

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Spon Press

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

A catalog record for this book has been requested.

ISBN 0-203-21729-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-27313-3 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-28351-5 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-28352-3 (pbk)

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