Last Call for Planet Earth: Sustainable Development and Architecture (Enhanced DVD)

A film in which 12 leading architects from the world share their vision on future architecture which respects nature and promises eco-friendly living! A wonderful video specially made for people who think and care about us, our future and about people who are ready to do anything to make a difference in our world, through their architectural insight. How does this happen? How can architecture make a difference in how we live and how does it influence our health and overall living conditions? This film is about radical changes which need to be done in building designs that is going to save our fragile planet, which is believed to be on its course of destruction, due to man-made changes. The film featured in Festival of Environmental Film and fulfilled its objective of effectively showing the upheavals, created due to many environmental threats and the several changes which make us think again about the kind of lifestyle we would like for us and our future generation.

This interesting program studies several works of leading architects from across the globe, everyone of who employs earth-friendly green concepts and eco-friendly materials, in the future architectural designs. The film is about many detailed visuals and extensive interviews, providing a massive insight into a huge range of office design as well as residential innovations that include green roof technology, counterintuitive use of space, passive solar energy and much more. The video includes many interviews from some of the most famous people like Massimiliano Fuksas, Daniel Pearl, Thom Mayne, Jaime Lerner,Georg Reinberg, Christoph Ingenhoven, , Daniel Pearl, Francoise-Helene, Qingyun Ma, Markku Komonen and Ivan Harbour among others. This high quality projection of facts, often stirs the minds of the audience who readily come up with questions or queries, on the sessions. (Last Call for Planet Earth: Sustainable Development and Architecture, Enhanced DVD, 75 minutes.)
ISBN: 978-1-60467-990-8
Copy Right Date: 2007
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