ECOWEEK The Book#1: 50 Voices for Sustainability - Softcover

Messinas, Elias; Price, Dan

9786188311206: ECOWEEK The Book#1: 50 Voices for Sustainability

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6188311209 ISBN 13: 9786188311206

Publisher: ECOWEEK, 2017

50 architects, landscape architects, designers and environmental leaders from 15 countries around the world, share their vision to inspire, provoke and educate. In articles, interviews, project presentations and manifestos, they join their voices and vision on sustainability, sustainable design, urbanism and architecture, to amplify a message of social, economic and environ-mental sustainability, embodied in their work. The contributing authors belong to the extended ECOWEEK ‘family.’ They have lectured and/or led ECOWEEK workshops in cities around the world. Among them Kengo Kuma, Bjarke Ingels, Francoise-Helene Jourda, Diebedo Francis Kere, Michael Sorkin, Gernot Minke, Prof. David Orr, Robert Swan, OBE, professionals, leaders and educators, young professionals and students. They share insights about their work - schools, public buildings, housing, rehabilitation of existing buildings, gardens, community gardens, environmental education, environmental leadership, and more - from the angle of sustainability and sustainable design. Editors Dr. Elias Messinas - architect and founding chairman of ECOWEEK - and architect Dan Price, who have authored books separately, joined forces to bring this book to realization. Their aim is to inspire, educate and empower young and established professionals to engage in sustainable design and discover their own voice for sustainability in their work.

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About the Author:

Elias Messinas is an architect, educator, and environmental consultant, graduate of Yale School of Architecture, Bezalel Academy, with a doctorate degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He is a consultant for 'green' buildings and teaches sustainable design studio and workshops at Technion Institute of Technology, Holon Institute of Technology and University of Patras. Elias is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the founding chairman of ECOWEEK and editor and senior writer of ECOWEEK printed and digital content. Elias is the author of numerous articles on architecture, sustainability, and historic architecture, author of two books on the synagogues of Greece (Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 2013, and Gavrielides Editions, Athens, 1997), and a blogger for the Jerusalem Post. Dan Price is an architect graduate of the Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa and the Porter School for Environmental Studies at the Tel Aviv University. As the partner of architect Ada Karmi-Melamede, he worked on numerous projects of various scale, from private houses to public buildings and university campuses. Dan teaches at the Technion Institute of Technology and is the co-author-with Ada Karmi-Melamede of 'Architecture in Palestine during the British Mandate, 1917-1948' - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011 (Hebrew) Israel Museum, 2014 (English). He is a principal of Price, Piltzer, Yawitz Architects practicing in Tel Aviv. In addition to his academic activity, Dan is pursuing a PhD focusing on the social housing projects built in Israel 1948-1967’s as a model for sustainable housing.

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