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Sim Van der Ryn is professor emeritus in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and founder and principal of Sim Van der Ryn + Associates, an architectural firm specializing in ecological design.
Stuart Cowan is a general partner with Autopoiesis LLC in Portland, Oregon, which offers design, development, and finance services internationally for large-scale sustainability projects. He recently served as research director at Ecotrust.
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
A Ten-Year Retrospective | p. 2 |
Bringing Design to Life | |
Sustainability and Design | p. 18 |
An Introduction to Ecological Design | p. 32 |
Nature's Geometry | p. 50 |
The Ecological Design Process | |
Introduction: The Compost Privy Story | p. 68 |
First Principle: Solutions Grow from Place | p. 76 |
Second Principle: Ecological Accounting Informs Design | p. 102 |
Third Principle: Design with Nature | p. 124 |
Fourth Principle: Everyone Is a Designer | p. 168 |
Fifth Principle: Make Nature Visible | p. 184 |
Resource Guide for Ecological Design | p. 199 |
Bibliography | p. 215 |
Index | p. 229 |
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