The Illinois School of Architecture Lecture | Spring 2022
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The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods by
How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both livable and sustainable? More importantly, how do you know if you have succeeded? Harrison Fraker goes beyond abstract principles to provide a clear, in-depth evaluation of four first generation low-carbon neighborhoods in Europe, and shows how those lessons can be applied to the U.S. Using concrete performance data to gauge successes and failures, he presents a holistic model based on best practices. The four case studies are: Bo01 and Hammarby in Sweden, and Kronsberg and Vauban in Germany. Each was built deliberately to conserve resources: all are mixed-used, contain at least 1,000 units, and have aggressive goals for energy and water efficiency, recycling, and waste treatment. For each case study, Fraker explores the community's development process and goals and objectives as they relate to urban form, transportation, green space, energy, water and waste systems, and a social agenda. For each model, he looks at overall performance and lessons learned. Later chapters compare the different strategies employed by the case-study communities and develop a comprehensive model of sustainability, looking specifically at how these lessons can be employed in the United States, with a focus on retrofitting existing communities. This whole-systems approach promises not only a smaller carbon footprint, but an enriched form of urban living. The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods will be especially useful for urban designers, architects, landscape architects, land use planners, local policymakers and NGOs, citizen activists, students of urban design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
ISBN: 1610914082Publication Date: 2013-09-01- Project journal : Teaching passive design in architecture byCall Number: Q. 721.04672 F843pPublication Date: 1981
Architecture by
The Empire State Building. Fallingwater. The Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rediscover these American treasures—and discover the engrossing stories of the colorful individuals whose designs made them possible—in Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future. This lavishly illustrated, eminently readable book commemorates 150 years of the American Institute of Architects, taking readers behind the scenes for an unprecedented look at the role of architecture and architects in society. Contributors include architect Thom Mayne, scholar James Steele, journalist Paul Goldberger, and many other leading voices. With up-close looks at works by Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Zaha Hadid, Eero Sarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and other masters, Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future is a must-have for anyone interested in architecture yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Call Number: Q. 720.973 Ar253ISBN: 9781584711629Publication Date: 2008-09-16
- Replacing a Shopping Center with an Ecological Neighborhood by The writers discuss the case of the Phalen Village Small Area Plan in St. Paul, Minnesota, in which a deteriorating strip shopping center was replaced with a wetland park. They describe the success of this retrofit but note that new residential development has begun to encroach on the park itself, severely compromising its original purpose as a public amenity that embodied urban ecological function. They argue that this case shows that urban ecological restoration can succeed as a retrofit strategy, but its public boundaries and access must be carefully defined, and “ownership” by adjacent residential and commercial uses must be established from the beginning, so that the park has empowered beneficiaries and defenders.Publication Date: Fall 2005
- Housing the next ten million by A report on the winners of “Housing the Next Ten Million,” a competition that solicited design and development concepts for accommodating the ten million additional people who are projected to live in California's Central Valley by the year 2040. The magnitude of the problem produced bold proposals, but the jury was attracted to solutions that focused on adding growth and value to existing communities, especially those that tried to maintain and enhance a local sense of place when considering development on such a massive scale. The first award in the New Growth category was won by a proposal by Daniel G. Parolek Urban Design, which places all new development in a clearly articulated growth boundary. The writer goes on to discuss the other winners in the categories of Redevelopment, Infill, Small Agriculture Community, and Housing Prototype, as well as several projects that received honorable mentions.Publication Date: Winter 2000
- Negotiating Implicit Theoretical Agendas by Part of a special section on the winning projects in the EDRA/Places Awards for 2001 and 2002. The writer discusses the theoretical issues, both explicit and implicit, negotiated by the jury for the 2002 EDRA/Places awards. He observes that four of the winners—the least theoretically problematic for the jury—share a common interest in activities and social processes of the everyday, while not appearing to promote any prescriptive aesthetic or design agenda. Noting, however, that the choice of the two final winners revealed problematic theoretical differences, he discusses how the question of what is a meaningful relationship between design and research recurred throughout the jury process. He considers the jury's most theoretically charged debate, which occurred over one group of projects that could be described as orthodox New Urbanist or neotraditional infill, versus another group whose design guidelines give prescribed shape to the public realm yet intentionally do not prescribe building types or regional styles.Publication Date: Fall 2002
- The Importance of “Place” at the Bellagio Global Summit by The Innovations for an Urban World conference in Bellagio, Italy, brought together specialists with an interest in new forms of planning and design practice and pedagogy to help meet the needs of the world's rapidly expanding urban poor. There were discussions exploring the experiences of participants with regard to specific questions, and breakout sessions saw the formulation of issues, new questions, and recommendations. The overwhelming conclusion was that place-based problems and challenges are at the core of future teaching and research on urban sustainability and central to improving the lives of the urban poor.Publication Date: Fall 2007
- Where is the Urban Design Discourse? by The writer discusses current modes of urban design thinking. He presents a chart that describes six such modes: Everyday Urbanism, Generic Urbanism/Hyper-Modernity, Hybrid Urbanism, New Urbanism, Transformative Urban Morphology, and Urban Ecological Reconstruction.Publication Date: Fall 2007
- Linking Science to Design by Two recent gatherings point toward a more meaningful and focused collaboration between the fields of science and design on climate-change issues. Leading climate scientists and energy experts who attended “Energy, Security and Climate: Resilient Pathways for a Non-Linear World,” a workshop at the Lawrence Livermore National laboratory in California from March 31 to April 2, 2008, concluded that the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has underestimated the rate and extent of global climate change. At a second meeting at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., from July 10 to 11, 2008, members of a steering committee of U.S. planning and environmental-design professionals called for a “national organization to leverage the expertise of the design and planning professions and institutions to address the impending catastrophic impacts of climate change.”Publication Date: Summer 2008