The ecological facades of Patrick Blanc

Architectural Design

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 28-33

  Gandy, Matthew ^a  

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EID: 77951043520     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1071     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Patrick Blanc, Le Bonheur d'être plante, Editions Maren Sell Editeurs (Paris), 2005
2. Patrick Blanc, The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City, WW Norton (London and New York), trans Gregory Bruhn, 2008 [2007]
3. Kristin Hohenadel, 'All His Rooms are Living Rooms', New York Times, 3 May 2007
4. Patrick Blanc, interview with Sophie Rousseau and Danièle Weiller for Biotope City Journal; see www.biotope-city.net/artikelen%20editie1/francais/ Interview.P.B.fr.htm, accessed 28 October 2009. The need to consider the ecological impact of entire buildings rather than their surfaces alone is raised by Rodolphe Deborre, 'La biodiversité au service du bâtiment... et vice versa', Le Moniteur, 2008; see http://www.becitizen.com/pdf/ LemoniteurLa_biodiversite_au_service_du_batiment.pdf, accessed 28 October 2009
5. G Feuerstein, Biomorphic Architecture, Axel Menges (Stuttgart), 2002
6. M Hensel and A Menges (eds), Morpho-Ecologies, Architectural Association (London), 2006
7. P Portoghesi, Nature nd Architecture, Skira (Milan), 2000
8. M Vercelloni, 'Mimesis, Design and Nature', Lotus 135, August 2008, pp 86-95
9. F Repishti, 'Green Architecture/Oltre la metafora', in Lotus, pp 34-41