TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1311 Design, Environment and Society

LECTURE 11 OUTLINE, - SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability/Ecology
(Or Sustainable Thinking) 

Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger,  Professor 

September 2021

Key Personnel
Richard Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
Lloyd Kahn 1935-
Craig Ellwood 1922-1992
Glenn Murcutt 1936-
Bruce Mau 1959-
William McDonough 1951-
David W. Orr. 1944-
Rem Koolhaas 1944- and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture
Miller Hull Architects http://www.millerhull.com/html/home.htm 


Books/News Media
Why isn't the Brain Green? by Jon Gertner New York Times Magazine April 16th 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19Science-t.html?pagewanted=all
Book Shelter, 1973. Lloyd Kahn 
Massive Change, 2004. Exhibition and Book by Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries 
Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way we make Things, 2002. William McDonough 
Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building (Cooperative Information System) Publisher: The MIT Press (April 30, 2008)
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Penguin 20217

Key Word Places
L E E D stands for: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Passive heating and Cooling Strategies 
Thermal Comfort Zone
Why isn't the Brain Green? 
An Inconvenient Truth a 2006 Documentary Film
Second Jacob House, 1943,Middleton WI by Frank Lloyd Wright
Magney House, Australia, 1982, Glenn Murcutt
Herzog and Partners, Germany, 1977 
David W. Orr
The Bullitt Center, 2012, Seattle Washington, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt Center 
https://millerhull.com/2015/bullitt-center-achieves-living-building-certification/
Seattle Public Library 2004, by Rem Koolhaas L E E D Silver Medal Building.


Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbPqjZw1pvE