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Texts

Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous, Vintage Books, New York, 1997.

Alexander, Christopher, The Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979.

Adamczyk, Georges, Maisons-lieux / Houses-Places, La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal, 2000.

Bachelard, Gaston, La poétique de l'espace, Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1957.

Barnett, Dianna Lopez & Browning, William D., A Primer on Sustainable Building, Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995.

Barnett, Jo Ellen, Time’s Pendulum - the Quest to Capture Time - From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, Plenum Trade, New York, 1998.

Beck, Haig & Cooper, Jackie, Glenn Murcutt - A singular architectural practice, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd., Mulgrave, Australia, 2002.

Bergeron, Richard, Les Québécois au volant : c'est mortel, Les Éditions des Intouchables, Montréal, 2005.

Brambilla, Roberto & Longo, Gianni.  Footnotes number two - The Rediscovery of the Pedestrian - 12 European Cities, Institute for Environmental Action, Columbia University Centre for Advanced Research in Urban and Environmental Affairs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1976.

Brambilla, Roberto & Longo, Gianni.  For Pedestrians Only - Planning, Design, and Management of Traffic-Free Zones, Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1977.

Brown, G.Z. & DeKay, Mark, Sun, Wind & Light - Architectural Design Strategies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2001.

Buchanan, Peter, Ten Shades of GREEN:  Architecture and the Natural World, The Architectural League of New York, New York, 2005.

Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, translation by William Weaver, Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, FL, 1972.

Canadian Wood Council, Wood Reference Handbook, Canadian Wood Council, Ottawa, 1991.

Castro, Ricardo L, Salmona,  Villegas editores,  Bogotá, 1998.

Ching, Francis D.K., Architecture:  Form, Space, and Order (third edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2007.

Ching, Francis D.K., Building Constructon Illustrated (3rd edit.), John Wiley & Sons, inc., New York, 2001.

Chomsky, Noam, Hegemony or Survival:  America's quest for global dominance, Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York, 2003.

Chomsky, Noam, Powers & Prospects - Reflections on human nature and the social order, South End Press, Boston, 1996.

Chomsky, Noam, Necessary Illusions - Thought Control in Democratic Societies, House of Anansi Press Limited, Concord, Ont. 1991.

Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio, Municipal Mind:  Manifestos for the Creative City, Mansfield Press Inc.,Toronto, 2007.

Doucet, Clive, Urban Meltdown:  Cities, Climage Change and Politics as Usual, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, 2007.

Easton, David, The Rammed Earth House, Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, VT, 1996.

Ekuan, Kenji, The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox, The MIT Press, Cambridge,  2000.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Democracy on Trial, House of Anansi Press Limited, Concord, Ont. 1993.

Fernandez-Galiano, Luis, Fire and Memory - On Architecture and Energy, translated by Gina Carino, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Fleig, Karl, Alvar Aalto, Editions Girsberger, Zurich, 1963.

Frampton, Kenneth, Studies in Tectonic Culture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995.

Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: a critical history, 3rd edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1992.

Gauzin-Müler, Dominique, l'Architecture écologique, Groupe Moniteur, Paris, 2001.

Gosling, David.  Gordon Cullen - Visions of Urban Design, Academy Editions, London, 1996.

Goudsmit, Samuel A. & Claiborne, Robert, Time, Time Inc., New York, 1966.

Greater Vancouver Regional District, Old to New - Design Guide:  Salvaged Building Materials in New Construction, prepared by:  Paul Kernan, Richard Kadulski, and Michel Labrie, GVRD, Vancouver, 2000.

Gutheim, Frederick, Alvar Aalto, George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1960.

Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce, HarperBusiness, New York, 1993.

Heath, The Heath Introduction to Poetry, D.C. Heath and Company, Toronto, 1988.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, The Ingenuity Gap, Alfred A. Knopt, Toronto, 2000.

Ignatieff, Michael,  The Rights Revolution, House of Anansi Press Limited, Toronto, 2000.

Jacobs, Allan B.  Great Streets, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1993.

Jacobs, Jane, Dark Age Ahead, Random House, New York, 2004.

Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Modern Library ed., New York, 1993

King, Bruce, Buildings of Earth and Straw, Ecological Design Press, Sausalito, CA, 1996.

Lacinski, Paul & Bergeron, Michel, Serious Straw Bale - a home construction guide for all climates, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT, 2000.

Landreville, Maude, Toitures vertes à la montréalaise : Rapport de recherche sur l'implantation des toits verts à Montréal, en collaboration avec Owen Rose, Centre d'écologie urbaine - SodecM, Montréal, 2005. 

Lawson, Bryan, Design in Mind, Butterworth Architecture, Oxford, 1994.

Levitt, Andrew, The Inner Studio, Riverside Architectural Press, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, 2007.

Marsan, Jean-Claude, Montréal en évolution, Méridien/Architecture, Laval, 1994.

Mihalyo, Daniel, Wood Burners, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1997.

Morgan, Michael L., Classics of Moral and Political Theory, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1992.

Nerenberg, Jacob, Projet-pilote de toit vert : Démarche d'une construction écologique, en collaboration avec Xavier Laplace et Owen Rose, Centre d'écologie urbaine - SodecM, Montréal, 2005. 

Newman, Oscar, Creating Defensible Space, U.S. Departement of Housing and Urban Development, 1996

Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Architecture:  Presence, Language, Place, Skira Editore, Milan, 2000.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Nightlands, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1996.

Norberg-Schultz, Christian, Genius Loci - Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. New York, 1979.

Pearson, David, The New Natural House Book, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1998.

Piano, Renzo, Renzo Piano 1987-1994, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 1995.

Powell, Robert, Rethinking the Skyscraper:  the complete architecture of Ken Yeang, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1999.

Rohr, René R.J., Sundials - History, Theory, and Practice, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1970.

Rosenberg, Donna, World Mythology - An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics, National Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, Il. 1986.

Rybczynski, Witold. City Life, Scribner, New York, 1995.

Saul, John Ralston, The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, Viking Canada, Toronto, 2005.

Saul, John Ralston, The Unconscious Civilization, House of Anansi Press Limited, Concord Ont. 1995.

Schleifer, Simone, Small Eco-houses, Taschen GmbH, Köln, 2007

Schoenauer, Norbert, Cities, Suburbs, Dwellings in the postwar era, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, 1994.

Streitz, Norbert A...(ed.), Cooperative Buildings:  integrating information, organisations, and architecture, (CoBuild'99, Pittsburgh, USA, October 1999), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999.

Streitz, Norbert A...(ed.), Cooperative Buildings:  integrating information, organisation, and architecture, (CoBuild'98, Darmstad, Germany, February 1998), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998.

Suzuki, David, The Sacred Balance - Rediscovering our Place in Nature, Greystone Books, Vancouver, 1997.

Vale, Brenda & Robert, Green Architecture, Little, Brown and Company, London, 1991.

Weisman, Alan, The World Without Us, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, 2007.

Worthington, John, Reinventing the Workplace, Architectural Press, Oxford, 1997.

Zeiher, Laura C., The Ecology of Architecture, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1996.
 

Periodicals

Architects' Journal, The, 2 November 2000, (Forty Years of Office Design), Emap Construct, London.

Architects' Journal, The, 13 April 2000, (Ecological Conclusion), Emap Construct, London.

Architects' Journal, The, 5 September 1996, (Design for Change in the World of Work), Emap Architecture, London.

Architects' Journal, The, 8 June 1995, (Health and Comfort in Offices) & (Green Building Materials), Emap Architecture, London.

Architecture, April 2003, (Carbon-Neutral Neighborhood), VNU Business Media, Inc., New York.

Architecture, February 2001, (The Green Machine), BPI Communications Inc., New York.

Architecture, December 1998, (Earth Work), BPI Communications Inc., New York.

Architectural Record, December 2000, (Design Office)

Architectural Record, August 1999, (What It Means to be Green) 

Architectural Record, April 1999, (Critique - Could Piano’s Debis Tower in Berlin have been built in the US?...)

Architectural Record, October 1998, (Criticism - ...the Debis Tower, by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop...)

Architectural Record, June 1998 (Equipment Building, San Juan Island, Washington)

Architectural Record, April 1990, (Green Architecture)

Architectural Review, The, January 2001, (Designing our Future), (Forestry Commission), (Arctic Arthouse), (Systems Analysis), (Material Invention), (Lifelong Learning), & (Island Archive), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, January 2000, (Project for offices, Catania, Italy - Cooling Towers) & (Industrial Revolution), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, October 1999, (Work Ethics), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, February 1999, (Touching the Earth Lightly), (Atacama Oasis), (Hanging Gardens), (Social Engagement), (Green on Show), & (Light Canopy), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, July 1998, (Green Vault), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, May 1998, (Greenhouse Effect), (Offices, King's Cross), (Offices, Turnham Green, London), & (Offices, Vienna, Austria), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, April 1998, (Creche, Bremen, Germany, Nordic artists’ centre, Norway, & Sheppard's Pie, UK), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, August 1997, (Strawberry Vale), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, September 1996, (Mixed Development, Harare, Zimbabwe), (Green Light) & (Kindergarten Chats), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, February 1996, Vol CXCIX No 1188, (Earthly fortresses), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, July 1994, (Six themes for the next millenium), Emap Construct, London.

Architectural Review, The, June 1993, (From metaphorical to ecological Functionalism), Emap Construct, London.

Architecture and Urbanism, December 1985, (Pedestrian City), A+U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo.

Azure, September/October 2002, (Built-in Climate Control), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Azure, May/June 2002, (Green on Top), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Azure, March/April 2001, (Let there be dark), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Azure, November/December 2000, (Juhani Pallasmaa: Body and Soul), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Azure, September/October 2000, (Coffeemakers are forever), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Azure, January-February 2000, (It ain’t the Royalton but…) & (The Green Gospel According to William McDonough), Azure Magazine, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, January 2004, (Concepts in Sustainability - Understanding LEED), Business Information Group, Don Mills, Ontario.

Canadian Architect, July 2002, (Opinion:  Building Kyoto), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, January 2002, (Green Connection, Code Green, Rain Forest Green, Greening Government, Perspectives on Sustainability), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, February 2001, (Collegial Think Tank), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, January 2001, (Sustained Discussion), (Designing for Disassembly), (Salvaged Materials in New Buildings), & (Green Acres), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, March 2000, (Natural Ventilation in Canada), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, January 1999, (Green Buildng - Mountain Equipment Co-op), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, October 1998, (Essay - The Fourth Wave), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, July 1996, (Green Buildings), Southam, Toronto.

Canadian Architect, May 1996, (Initiatives:  Straw into Gold), Southam, Toronto.

Daidalos, October 1999, (Applied Nature), G+B Arts International, Basel.

East West, July 1989, (Ecological Building:  Germany’s Healthful Import).

Globe and Mail, The, August 24, 1999, (B.C. firm builds niche out of dirt), Toronto.

Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1999 (Toward and Architecture of Humility), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge.

Natural Home Magazine, May/June 2003 (Feet on the Ground), Natural Home, Loveland, CO.

Natural Home Magazine, Jul/Aug 2002 (Not-So-Secret Gardens), Natural Home, Loveland, CO.

Progressive Architecture, January 1995, (A Maturing Green Architect), Reinhold Publishing, Cleveland, OH.

Renewable Energy World, May-June 2003, (Itoman City Hall), James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd., London, UK.

RIBA Journal, November 1997, (Earth wind & tyres), The Builder Group, London.

Miscellaneous

Economides, Aliki, (The Architect as Weaver: constructing the fabric of lived experience), Aliki Economides, Montréal, 2001.

Goodfellow, Goodlam, Corporate brochure, Montréal, 2000.

Hydrotech, Garden Roof, Corporate brochure, Montréal, 1997.

Pallasmaa, Juhani, (Lecture: Hapticity and Time - Notes on Fragile Architecture), RIBA Architecture Gallery, 1999.

Soprema, Soranature, Corporate brochure, Québec City, 1998.
 

Websites

Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/

Advanced Buildings
http://www.advancedbuildings.org/

Alvar Aaltohttp://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26190
http://www.alvaraalto.fi/indexe.htm

ArchiBio
http://www.archibio.qc.ca

The Architectural Review
http://www.arplus.com/home.htm

Architecture Week
http://www.architectureweek.com/

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/home.asp

Azure Magazine
http://www.azuremagazine.com/

Behnisch, Behnisch et Partner
http://www.behnisch.com/

BetterBricks
http://www.betterbricks.com/

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/

BuildingGreen
http://www.buildinggreen.com/

BuildSmart (GVRD)
http://www.buildsmart.ca
http://www.buildsmart.ca/pubs.htm

Busby + Associates Architects
http://www.busby.ca/

Canada Green Building Council (LEED for Canada)
http://www.cagbc.ca/index.php

Canadian Architect
http://www.cdnarchitect.com/

Canadian association for renewable energies
http://www.renewables.ca/

Canadian Solar Industries Association
Association des Industries Solaires du Canada
http://www.cansia.ca/

Canadian Green Product Resources
http://www.designinggreen.com/

Canadian Wind Energy Association
L'association canadienne d'énergie éolienne
http://www.canwea.ca/

Canadian Wood Council
http://www.wood-works.org/

CanREN - Natural Resources Canada
http://www.canren.gc.ca/default_en.asp

Centre Canadien d'Architecture (CCA)
http://www.cca.qc.ca/

Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development Website
(U.S. Department of Energy)
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

CK Choi Building Information
http://www.iar.ubc.ca/choibuilding/matsuzaki.html

CMHC Healthy House / Maison saine SCHL
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

David Suzuki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

Death by Architecture
http://www.deathbyarch.com/

Detail
http://www.detail.de/En/Aktuell/Index

Écohabitation (Québec eco website)
http://www.ecohabitation.com

Ecosmart Concrete
http://www.ecosmart.ca/

ecosustainable links
http://www.ecosustainable.com.au/links.htm

Énergie Solaire Québec
http://www.esq.qc.ca

Eden Project
http://www.edenproject.com/

Envirolink Network For Change
http://envirolink.netforchange.com/index.html

Équiterre
http://www.equiterre.qc.ca/

Forest Stewardship Council
http://www.fscus.org/

Green Building
International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment 
http://www.greenbuilding.ca/

Greenclips News Digest
http://www.greenclips.com/

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
http://www.greenroofs.org/

ICP Global Technologies (Solar)
http://www.icpglobal.com

International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org/default.asp

Juhani Pallasmaa
http://www.theo.tu-cottbus.de/wolke/deu/namen/pallasmaa.htm

la Maison du 21e siècle
http://www.21esiecle.qc.ca/

Mountain Equipment Co-op 
http://www.mec.ca

Natural Home Magazine
http://www.naturalhomemag.com/

Patkau Architects Inc.
http://www.patkau.ca/

PHD Architecture (liste des concours québécois)
http://www.phd-architecture.com/

Philip Merrill Environmental Centre, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
http://www.cbf.org/

Pierre Thibault architecte
http://pthibault.com/

Rammed Earth Design
http://www.sirewall.com/
http://www.terrafirmabuilders.ca
http://www.siteground128.com/~rammedea/index.php
http://www.solumbuilders.ca/
http://terre.grenoble.archi.fr/accueil.php
http://www.rammedearth.blogspot.com/
http://www.rammedearthworks.com/
http://www.hahaha.com.au/rammed.earth/links.htm
http://www.rickjoy.com/
http://www.rammedearth.com/
http://www.earthhomes.com/
http://www.earth-house.com/
http://www.ecoaxis.net/archt/rammedearth.html

Renzo Piano Workshop
http://www.rpbw.com/

Rocky Mountain Institute
http://www.rmi.org/

Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/

Solarwall (Conserval Engineering Inc.)
http://www.solarwall.com/

The St Andrews Prize
http://www.thestandrewsprize.com/

Strawbale Construction
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/bourke/Mardivert_pres/index.htm

Sustainable Building Sourcebook
http://www.greenbuilder.com/
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/contents.html

Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC)
http://www.sbicouncil.org/

Sun angle calculations
http://susdesign.com/sunangle/
http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_ca.html

The Tofte Project
http://www.tofteproject.com/

Thoreau Center for Sustainability
http://www.thoreau.org/home.html

Les Toits vertige
http://www.toitsvertige.com

US Green Building Council (LEED Rating System)
http://www.usgbc.org/

Your Home Planet Resources Guide
http://www.yourhomeplanet.com/

Wood Design Building
Wood - le Bois
http://www.woodmags.com/

Zone Architecture (Québec)
http://www.z-1.org/icn/default.htm