All Entries in the "TLS #59" Category
Native to Place: Sustainable Design Can Forge Stronger Communities- TLS #59
This article appeared in TLS #59
by Tim Beatley – Virginia, USA
Reprinted with permission from Residential Architect magazine, November 2005.
We live in disconnected times. We occupy space but know little about it. Instead of joining communities or neighborhoods, we buy houses and make real estate investments.
Sustainable design offers us the chance to rekindle these lost connections, [...]
Sustainable Living in California – TLS #59
This article appeared in TLS #59.
Turko Semmes is a licensed general contractor from San Luis Obispo County, California, and one of the foremost experts in straw-bale building techniques.
A graduate from the Architecture Department of Cal Poly State University in 1978 with a degree in Construction Engineering, he has been self-employed since that time, running a [...]
Better Quality, Ecological Correctness through Sustainable Design – TLS #59
This article appeared in TLS #59.
by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper – California, USA
Adopted from an article that appeared in Home Power Magazine.
Like many other architectural firms in California, San Luis Obispo Sustainability Group architects had been designing building that utilized passive solar for many years. Like many other architectural firms around the country, [...]
