THIS BOOK DOCUMENTS THE EXHIBITION Ten Shades of Green, organized by the Architectural League, with Peter Buchanan as curator, and launched in New York in the spring of 2000. The League's goal with Ten Shades was straightforward: to show examples of work that combined environmental responsibility with formal ambition. Peter Buchanan accomplished that goal, beautifully, in the projects he chose and described, which range widely both in formal composition and in the ways in which they engage environmental issues. He also created something larger: a context for understanding those projects, and for evaluating all works of architecture and land planning, that embraces a range of concerns from technical efficiency to communal well-being to emotional resonance.

A compelling and provocative manifesto using ten buildings to illustrate how environmental responsibility promises to reinvigorate contemporary architecture.

Contemporary buildings, like contemporary forms of urban development, are major contributors to the environmental crisis. Curator and critic Peter Buchanan uses ten buildings that combine environmental responsibility and design excellence to argue that sustainability is not just good for the planet, but offers architects new opportunities for creativity and innovation. Generously illustrated with photographs and plans of work by an international roster of architects including Norman Foster, Herzog + Partner, Michael Hopkins and Partners. Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Renzo Piano, and others.

Architect, writer, critic, and consultant in environmental design and planning, Peter Buchanan lives in London.

Preface by Rosalie Genevro

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton

Green Culture and the

Evolution of Architecture

by Peter Buchanan

The Ten Shades

Beyeler Foundation Museum

Riehen (Basel), Switzerland 1992-97

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Commerzbank Headquarters

Frankfurt, Germany 1991-1997

Foster and Partners

Cotton Tree Pilot Housing

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia 1992-1994

Clare Design

Ootz Headquarters

Wurzburg, Germany 1993-1995

Webler + Geissler Architekten

Hall 26

Hanover, Germany 1994-1996

Herzog + Partner

Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, England 1996-1999

Michael Hopkins and Partners

Minnaert Building

Utrecht, The Netherlands 1994-97

Neutelings Riedijk Architecten

Mont-Cenis Training Center

Herne-Sodingen, Germany 1991-1999

Jourda & Perraudin Architectes, Jourda Architectes,

Hegger Hegger Schleiff Planer + Architekten

Slateford Green

Edinburgh, Scotland 1996-2000

Andrew Lee for Hackland + Dore

Four Houses

Fernau & Hartman Architects

Rick Joy Architect

Lake/Flato Architects

Brian Mackay-Lyons Architecture Urban Design

Credits

Exhibition Travel Schedule

Bibliography

Acknowledgements