Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology [Paperback]

Catherine Slessor (Author), John Linden (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2001

An international survey of projects completed during the 1990s using high-tech forms and materials for environmentally intelligent means. Bringing together approaches by established practitioners - Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and Michael Hopkins - with a new generation of architects - Thomas Herzog, Von Gerkan Marg, Design Antenna and Future Systems - this book presents their examples in detailed form. The introduction charts the evolution of high-tech architecture and its progression toward more ecological concerns, while the movement as a whole is considered in a broader architectural context. At the heart of the book is a selection of 40 of the world's most sophisticated projects, each with a description of its unique architectural and technological features, as well as extensive plans, drawings and sketches. The reference section includes biographies and technical details of each project.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A compelling visual survey. -- Institute for Urban Design Update

A global survey of forty of the most remarkable buildings of the 1990s...this is architectural criticism at its most lyrical. -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Catherine Slessor is Deputy Editor of the Architectural Review John Linden is a noted architectural photographer whose images appear regularly in numerous international magazines and books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500283060
• ISBN-13: 978-0500283066
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,274,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Glossy pict, poor analysis, March 29, 2000

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tiffonie milkowski (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology (Hardcover)

I was disappointed with this book. It seems the author's desire for glossy photos overwhelmed the critical analysis and description of the passive technologies. Too often, I was enamoured with the photos, and left guessing about the method. The main subject of the book, eco-tech and high technology, are superficially described in the intro, and barely touched upon in the "case studies." Consequently this book becomes yet another photo-architecture book on the already overcrowded coffee table. This book does not do justice to the complexity of the passive systems used in the buildings it features and at best could serve as a pictoral supplement to other more descriptive texts.

4.0 out of 5 stars fantastic projects, poor details, June 4, 2003

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Kaes Ali (Toronto-Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology (Paperback)

very immportant issue indeed, but i would have thought that a more thorough text, with richer details on each project outlined will be more suitable. i mean this is't a fancy archi movement, it is an exploding concept, which deserved a more detailed book, each project leavs you so thirsty cause it wasn't covered enough and the aim of selecting them as examples of the title wasn't really clearly demonstrated, so at the end you are more woundering than satisfied. but why the 4 stars then? well, the outline, the fantastic photos, the projects themselves. i would really wish that the authors would come up with a part 2 or something.

5.0 out of 5 stars its very well book about the envy tech approach to arch, September 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology (Hardcover)

well i'm so interest of this book because my concern in environmental design in my countri, but I an Indonesian, you know about my country crisis, we have lack of dollars, so if i can, i need a sinopsis of this book to arrange more well my country sistem susteainable architecture development. To be more help my brother with technology approach to serve their life and live...