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Greening ModernismPreservation, Sustainability and the Modern
Movementby Carl Stein (FAIA) W.W. Norton & CompanyGreening Modernism addresses the interrelationships between
sustainability, architectural preservation, and the Modern movement and places
these issues into historical perspective.
For the past quarter-century, mainstream architecture has proceeded on the
underlying belief that we have the resources to build whatever and as much as we
want and that technology can overcome any problems we create for ourselves
through our building activities. The serious shortages that now confront us
demand a thorough reevaluation of this premise. Carl Stein, nationally
recognized for his contributions to the field of sustainable design, connects
the impact of individual building design decisions to the global energy and
environmental crises. He sets out the argument for sustainability inherent in
Modern design, identifying tenets that are intrinsic to contemporary ecological
thinking, and he provides the nuts-and-bolts information to assist practitioners
and students of architecture, engineering, planning, and environmentalism in
specific building-upgrade projects. While not a how-to handbook, Greening
Modernism provides quantitative data and describes the environmental
benefits from the continued use of the vast inventory of modern buildings,
including reduced demand for energy and other finite resources and reduced need
for waste processing. Greening Modernism explains the relationships
between design and technology in the pre-petroleum, early-petroleum, and
late-petroleum eras and goes on to suggest opportunities for architecture in a
post-petroleum world.While recognizing the inescapable limits of finite
resources, Carl Stein, using a combination of evocative images and hard
data, presents an optimistic view of an architecture that improves
quality of life and cultural experience by using existing structures
that have been revitalized from a Modernist perspective. Specific
examples range from individual building components - envelope,
mechanical systems, controls - to regional and national infrastructure.Energy Conscious ArchitectureProfessional Development ProgramMonograph
SeriesNational Council of Architectural Registration BoardsEnergy
Conscious Architecture, originally published in 1993 with a subsequent
update and reprinting in 2001, is the first generally available
monograph in the NCARB Professional Development Program series. The
topics range from long-term and recent history to both broad conceptual
and fine-grain specific measures for designing low energy use buildings.
In addition to its ?how-to? information, the monograph makes a
compelling case for the importance of considering the energy performance
of buildings not only as a socially responsible act but also as an
underlying design imperative.Handbook of Energy Use for Building ConstructionUS Department of
EnergyThe Handbook of Energy Use for Building Construction,
co-authored by Carl Stein, FAIA and Richard G. Stein, FAIA, was created
under a contract with US DOE based on ground-breaking investigations
into the embodied energy in construction; that is, the total energy
required to obtain resources, process and manufacture raw materials,
fabricate components and systems, and assemble them at the building
site. Although published in 1981, it remains the most comprehensive
information source of its kind and has been used to help justify the
preservation of numerous structures as well as to assess the effect of
building alternatives on energy consumption.Energy in ArchitectureProfessional Development ProgramAmerican
Institute of ArchitectsThe Energy in Architecture brochure ?
the ?Silver Bullet... See More? ? was developed in 1981 by the Energy
Professional Development Task Group of the National AIA Energy
Committee. The brochure established the organization and broad topics of
the program that would create four texts, train an outstanding faculty
and deliver seminars to thousands of practicing architects in the
largest educational program then undertaken by the Institute. It was
also a key asset in building support for the program as it was under
development.Energy in Design: Applications - Level 3 Workshop Professional
Development ProgramAmerican Institute of ArchitectsThe
Energy in Architecture texts were created for the seminars that
delivered the program to AIA members and other practicing architects.
They followed the organization established by the AIA Energy Committee
and the Energy Professional Development Task Group which divided the
subject into four levels of knowledge ranging from that which a well
informed layperson should know, through the levels expertise that should
be expected of a practicing architect and finally the material that an
?energy specialist? might offer. The program was structured to allow
subject modules to be created independently while retaining an overall
coherence.Energy Conservation in Existing BuildingsArchitect Development
Verification Program Monograph Series National Council of
Architectural Registration BoardsEnergy Conservation in Existing
Buildings, co-authored with Richard G. Stein, FAIA, was the prototype
monograph for the NCARB Professional Development Program. The monograph
dealt with the environmental rationale of reusing existing buildings as
well as discussing general approaches and specific techniques for
improving their performance.Low Energy Utilization SchoolBoard of Education, City of New
YorkNational Science Foundation & Bureau of StandardsThe
Low Energy Use School study, conducted in for the NYC Board of
Education and the National Science Foundation in conjunction with the
National Bureau of Standards was a ground-breaking analysis of
energy-use patterns in 1000 NYC school buildings. The first phase
produced comprehensive criteria for the design of new, high-performance
school buildings. In the second phase, recommendations were developed
for measure which could be rapidly implemented in existing buildings.
This was supported by the creation of an operating manual that was
distributed to all school custodians.