Green imperative. Guide to environmentally friendly and ethical design and architecture

"Architecture and design are mainly social arts. You can not love the theater and ballet, never visit museums and galleries, reject poetry and literature and turn off concerts on the radio. However, buildings, settlements and everyday tools form many visual impressions that cannot be ignored. " - Victor Papapank, American designer, anthropologist, philosopher and theorist. In general, a genius.

Victor Papapanek received a master"s degree in the Design direction of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught at the University of North Carolina and Stockholm University. He was a Volvo consultant, created a radio -receiver from a tin can and wrote 6 books, the most famous of which is "design for the real world". Papapank became the first designer in the 20th century to speak about a socially responsible and environmentally friendly design.

This book will tell you what the purpose of design and architecture is, how designers can make cleaner products and why the consumer should always expect more. Victor Papapank, an American designer with many years of experience, a philosopher and theorist, with various examples, from packages to parking lots, will show that the time has come for a more complicated stable design, requiring thoughtfulness and concern for our land