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The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture – Design Principles, Case Studies, and Legacy

"The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture, authored by Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne and paired with a landmark National Building Museum exhibition, re-defined eco-friendly residential design. It demonstrated that sustainable architecture could combine high design aesthetic beauty with rigorous environmental performance across diverse global climates and landscape typologies. The Paradigm Shift in Sustainable Residential Architecture For decades, environmentally conscious residential design was widely perceived as a technical compromise. Early solar homes of the 1970s and 1980s often emphasized functional off-grid a..."

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