Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

by Stephen R. Kellert

Book Overview

Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability.

In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559637218
• ISBN13: 9781559637213
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"