"Greening Modernism": Modern in a Time of Finite Resources

“It’s one of those topics that I find very hard to boil down into short, concise pieces,” said Carl Stein of his new book, “Greening Modernism,” from W. W. Norton Company.

And for good reason.  It’s a complex subject, but tackled head-on by an architect who’s worked on projects ranging from a one-million-square-foot building in Shanghai, to the the restoration of Shepard Hall at City College of New York, to the AIA-award-winning South Jamaica Branch Library there.

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His new book is a treatise on how less can bring more to these relationships.

“What architecture is about primarily is addressing the built environment in ways to make life better, and a strong argument can be made for doing things very well with less extraneous materials,” he said. “It’s a method of having a more appealing and satisfactory life.” READ MORE >>

via architectsandartisans.com