July / Aug. 2008
Growing up green: Building a sustainable future; What exactly is good design?; Concrete thinking: Material science for a new millenium; Special section: Sustainability timeline.
Growing up green: Building a sustainable future; What exactly is good design?; Concrete thinking: Material science for a new millenium; Special section: Sustainability timeline.
Features
Post Bale
Ship Shape
Echo Logical
Only Planet
We chart the nonlinear path of progress toward planetary sustainability. Story by Barry Katz
Post Bale
Javelin throwing won’t qualify you for the Solar Decathlon, but a straw-based prefab panel just might. Sustainable-building champ Rob Pyatt’s stamina never flagged as he dashed through architecture school and built an addition to his family’s home. Story by Sarah Rich / Photos by Dave Lauridsen
Ship Shape
It’s not the Fantasy Island of TV, but Amsterdam’s Steigereiland is charmed by the whalelike structure floating in Pieter Weijnen’s fanciful Blue House. Story by Jane Szita / Photos by Hertha Hurnaus
Echo Logical
At the Los Angeles home of City Council president Eric Garcetti and his partner, Amy Elaine Wakeland, the political is personal and green is the campaign slogan.
Story by Frances Anderton / Photos by Misha Gravenor
Departments
Detour
My House
Off the Grid
Archive
Conversation
Rethinking the Material World
If the concrete jungle is the last place you’d call green, you’ve got another thing coming. Carbon-storing cement and emissions-eating drywall are two examples of new
technologies from the materials world.
In the Modern World
In preparation for the Beijing Olympics, China’s pulling strings to control the weather, while around the world in London, urban volunteers are pulling garbage from the banks of the Thames.
Detour
Hong Kong’s architectural development can be traced through time by viewing it panoramically from the city’s stratospheric escalators. We survey the layers with local architect Rocco Yim. Story by Marc Kristal / Photos by Andrew Rowat
My House
Having stood strong through earthquake and fire since 1885, Christi Azevedo’s San Francisco Victorian was crying out for an intervention. She took the case and turned the place around, giving the ragged array of rooms a new lease on life. Story by Deborah Bishop / Photos by Dave Lauridsen / Illustration by Keith Shore
Off the Grid
In the medieval Czech town of Třeboň, digging for buried treasure may not reveal riches, but it can tap enough geothermal energy to power a home. Story by Sarah Rich / Photos by Andrea Lhotakova
Theme Attic
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils and put on your thinking caps. Design firm Work Worth Doing presents a pop quiz to test your knowledge of sustainability.
Archive
Charles Haertling caught a Rocky Mountain high that lasted 25 years, producing a collection of organic buildings the likes of which Colorado had never seen. Story by Mimi Zeiger
Dwell Reports
Architect, writer, and all-around green authority Jason McClennan, CEO of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, surveys a lineup of eco-toilets and lays down the odds on super bowl contenders. Story by Michael Grozik / Photos by Andy Reynolds / Illustrations by Jason Lee
Conversation
Foretelling the future by examining the present, architect and climate-change activist Ed Mazria talks us through accepting reality, predicting crises, and averting disaster by mobilizing a coalition of the building. Story by Geoff Manaugh
Process
Take a passage to India with Barcelona-based rug designer Nani Marquina as weavers transform a Tord Boontje sketch by warp and weft into a blossoming field of woolen flowers.
Essay
When the words “good” and “design” get together, do they add up to more than the sum of their parts? We assess whether the time-honored seal of approval has become a wax statue in a living lexicon.
Design Junkie
By assiduously accumulating and artfully assembling the flotsam and jetsam of consumer culture, Stuart Haygarth has established himself as an inventive artist and inveterate archivist. Story by Michael Grozik
Sourcing
Where to find the designs you discovered while flipping from here to there.
