3. Fundamental Principles
Began the class with a mandate not to teach design, but to push
students to write and to do that they needed to be challenged to THINK
Sustainable Architecture class was not strictly an Architecture class, it
incorporated
history,
geology,
physics,
chemistry,
biology,
psychology,
sociology,
engineering,
marketing,
business
4. Fundamental Principles
Sustainable Architecture class WAS NOT about
Checklists
Prescriptive codes or narratives
Building form
"Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-
blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the
winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing
sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function
does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-
brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape,
and dies, in a twinkling.
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things
physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things
superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the
soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever
follows function. This is the law.“ - Louis Sullivan
7. History
Asbestos = Inextinguishable
750,000 BC
Archeologists found Asbestos fibers in
Stone Age Debris
4,000 BC
used for lamp wicks and candles
3,000 BC
used for wrapping Egyptian pharaohs
17 BC
Greek geographer Strabo first identified
Asbestos as the cause of a “sickness of
the lungs” in slaves that wove cloth and
lampwicks
8. History
Ten Books On
Architecture
“'.return to the method of old
times. Our ancestors, when
about to build a town or an
army post, sacrificed some of
the cattle that were wont to
feed on the site proposed
and examined their livers.
'..”
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
9. Sustainable Architecture
Indoor air quality
Materials & Resource Conservation
Power Generation / Energy Efficiency
Water / Wastewater
Site Design / Development
10. Environmental Resource Guide
1994 American Institute of Architects
Construction Materials Management
Guidelines
1994 American Institute of Architects
Green Architecture
1991 Brenda and Robert Vale
11. Sustainable Development
Issues
Population, Air Quality, Water Quality, Waste, Energy
Ecosystems
Wetlands, Forests
Urban/Regional Development
Smart Growth, Traffic, Codes/Regulatory Opportunities
Site Design / Development
Site Analysis, ESAs, Brownfield, SWPPP, Light Pollution
Business
Marketing Green Development, Financing Green, Green Mortgages