Sustainable

EducationArt, Science, or Both?

Stephen A. Jovicich, AIALEED Accredited Professional

Partner

Initial Challenges � Lack of

Awareness

� Design

subordinate to

Technology

� Availability of

Information

� Attitude toward

“GREEN

DESIGN”

Fundamental Principles

� Began the class with a mandate not to teach design, but to push

students to write and to do that they needed to be challenged to THINK

� Sustainable Architecture class was not strictly an Architecture class, it

incorporated

� history,

� geology,

� physics,

� chemistry,

� biology,

� psychology,

� sociology,

� engineering,

� marketing,

� business

Fundamental Principles

� Sustainable Architecture class WAS NOT about

� Checklists

� Prescriptive codes or narratives

� Building form

"Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-

blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the

winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing

sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function

does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-

brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape,

and dies, in a twinkling.

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things

physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things

superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the

soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever

follows function. This is the law.“ - Louis Sullivan

Fundamental Principles

� Sustainable Architecture class WAS about

� Function

� Synthesis of disciplines and ideas

� Questions

History

‘Those who

cannot

remember the

past are

condemned to

repeat it.’

George Santayana

History

Asbestos = Inextinguishable

750,000 BC

Archeologists found Asbestos fibers in

Stone Age Debris

4,000 BC

used for lamp wicks and candles

3,000 BC

used for wrapping Egyptian pharaohs

17 BC

Greek geographer Strabo first identified

Asbestos as the cause of a “sickness of

the lungs” in slaves that wove cloth and

lampwicks

History

Ten Books On

Architecture

“'.return to the method of old

times. Our ancestors, when

about to build a town or an

army post, sacrificed some of

the cattle that were wont to

feed on the site proposed

and examined their livers.

'..”

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Sustainable Architecture

Indoor air quality

Materials & Resource Conservation

Power Generation / Energy Efficiency

Water / Wastewater

Site Design / Development

Environmental Resource Guide 1994 American Institute of Architects

Construction Materials Management

Guidelines1994 American Institute of Architects

Green Architecture1991 Brenda and Robert Vale

Sustainable Development

IssuesPopulation, Air Quality, Water Quality, Waste, Energy

EcosystemsWetlands, Forests

Urban/Regional DevelopmentSmart Growth, Traffic, Codes/Regulatory Opportunities

Site Design / DevelopmentSite Analysis, ESAs, Brownfield, SWPPP, Light Pollution

BusinessMarketing Green Development, Financing Green, Green Mortgages

Sustainable Development

Buildings or Food

Green Development1998 Rocky Mountain Institute

Green Design with Nature1967 Ian McHarg

Earth in the Balance1992 Sen. Al Gore

Thanks

Stephen A. Jovicich, AIALEED Accredited Professional