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Building for life : designing and understanding the human-nature connection

"Conventional architecture builds a wall between us and nature. And that fractured relationship makes for not only mediocre design, but a lower quality of life, according to Yale, professor Stephen R. Kellert. In Building for Life, Kellert offers simple yet creative solutions that bring green architecture to a personal level. Inspired by the work of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Norman Foster, Kellert proposes a new architectural model to reinvigorate our daily lives. His ideas are a bridge back to the natural world."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2005
Island Press, Washington, DC, ©2005
1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations
9781429495158, 9781559637213, 9781559636735, 9781597265911, 1429495154, 1559637218, 1559636734, 1597265918
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Introduction
Science and theory of connecting human and natural systems
Nature and childhood development
Harmonizing the natural and human built environments
Biophilic design
Ethics of sustainability
Narrative epilogue
Of forests and the sea, 1955 : middle childhood
From apple orchards to shopping malls, 1972 : late adolescence
Geographic sketches here and there, 1985 : early adulthood
Seals in the neighborhood, 2004 : middle age
Reminiscence of childhood and the city, later generations : 2030 and 2055