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Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World

✍ Scribed by Jared Green

Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Leaves
177
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answersβ€”covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoamβ€”show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead.

Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including:

β€’ Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus
β€’ Curator Barry Bergdoll
β€’ Educator and author Alan Berger
β€’ Environmentalist and author Lester Brown
β€’ Architect Rick Cook
β€’ Urban Planner Paul Farmer
β€’ Critic Christopher Hume
β€’ Architect Bjarke Ingels
β€’ Landscape designer Mia Lehrer
β€’ Architect Rob Rogers
β€’ Critic Inga Saffron
β€’ Artist Janet Echelman
β€’ Environmentalist Jemma Green

✦ Subjects

Landscape Architecture Arts Photography Sustainability Green Design

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