Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
E² design. Season one [videorecording] / director, Tad Fettig ; series producer, Elizabeth Westrate ; narration writers, Mark Decena, John Kenney ; produced by kontentreal, LLC.
Publisher, Date:
[Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2006.
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 180 [i.e. 160] min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The green apple uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering from social and humanitarian crises. Shows projects in East Austin, Tex. and with the Yaqui Indians in Mexico where architecture students are helping residents build low-cost, environmentally-friendly homes using local materials. The green machine follows Mayor Richard M. Daley as he strives to make Chicago "the greenest city in America" with numerous LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified buildings, a solar-powered public transportation system, and many green roofs, including one on Chicago's City Hall. The fourth episode takes the notion of the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) to grand proportions by turning Boston's "Big Dig" steel and concrete waste into spectacular residential design. China : from red to green? depicts a rapidly urbanizing country at its tipping point and finds a sustainable solution in Steven Holl's Beijing project, which will have the largest geothermal heating/cooling and greywater recycling system in the world upon completion. Deeper shades of green presents three visionaries who are changing the face of architecture and environmentalism and features some of their projects. Focuses on Ken Yeang and his "bio-climatic" National Library of Singapore, Werner Sobek and R128, his energy-efficient, steel and glass box house, and William McDonough and his model sustainable village of Huangbaiyu, China.
Subjects:
Yeang, Ken, 1948-
Sobek, Werner.
McDonough, William.
Sustainable architecture.
Sustainable buildings.
Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction.
Sustainable architecture -- DVD-Video discs.
Sustainable buildings -- DVD-Video discs.
Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction -- DVD-Video discs.
Ecological houses -- Design and construction.
Waste products as building materials.
Construction and demolition debris -- Recycling.
Green technology.
Television programs.
Educational television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Science television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD-Video discs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Environmental conditions.
China -- Environmental conditions.
Other Author:
Fettig, Tad.
Westrate, Elizabeth.
Decena, Mark.
Kenney, John.
Pitt, Brad, 1963-
Kontentreal (Firm)
PBS Home Video.
Other Title:
Design E²
E2 design
Design E2
E-squared design. Season one
Subtitle on container: Economies of being environmentally conscious
Notes:
Originally broadcast in 2006 as a six-part PBS documentary series on green architecture.
Region 1; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., dual-layer, single sided; anamorphic widescreen format.
Narrator, Brad Pitt.
DVD.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
The green apple -- Green for all -- The green machine -- Gray to green -- China : from green to red -- Deeper shades of green.
ISBN:
0793692512
Publisher or Distributor Number:
DESI601
Other Number:
70254931
System Availability:
3
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
3
Control Number:
776029
Call Number:
363.7 DESI DVD
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
3
# System items in:
3
Medium:
[videorecording]