Ecological Design will not provide answers to any specific
questions you may have about your current project, but it may inspire
you to think more broadly about those questions. This hour-long video
explores the evolution of environmentally aware design. Through interviews
with a great many pioneers and theorists, and footage of their work,
the film outlines the evolution from a mechanistic model of building
and system design to one rooted in natural systems.
Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri, Paul MacCready, Peter Calthorpe,
Ian McHarg, William McDonough, Jay Baldwin, Hazel Henderson, Jaime
Lerner, Amory Lovins, John Todd, Stewart Brand, Pliny Fisk - interviews
with al these and other leading practitioners and thinkers bring
the design evolution to life and provide insights into the ideas
and concerns that have motivated their work. Ecological Design
is well made and engaging. Although there is much more that could
have been included, what's here is enough to remind anyone working
in ecological design why they chose this field and why the work
must go on.
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