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Native to Place: Sustainable Design Can Forge Stronger Communities- TLS #59

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, [...]

Better Quality, Ecological Correctness through Sustainable Design – TLS #59

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, [...]