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From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design
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Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture has been ongoing for nearly a century. By exploring key moments of inspiration between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the 1980s, Anker traces the historical intersection of architecture and ecological science and assesses how both remain intertwined philosophically and pragmatically within the still-evolving field of ecological design.
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945
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From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
On Ultimate Norms in Ecosophy T
“On Ultimate Norms in Ecosophy T” The Trumpeter (1998)
This essay does two things. It offers one possible interpretation of ArneNaess’s ultimate ecophilosophic norms, and it shows how these norms can support the following three statements in the deep ecological platform.
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