Professor Marc Neveu was recently published in the book SOUPERgreen!—Souped Up Green Architecture. A panelist discussion on the book will be held during the SOUPERgreen! book signing at Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore in Los Angeles.
SOUPERgreen! Discussion & Book Signing
Saturday, June 10, 2017, 3:00 – 5:00pm
300 S Santa Fe Ave, Ste M, Los Angeles, California 90013
SOUPERgreen!—Souped Up Green Architecture features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the prevailing approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. This work stands in sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture that rely primarily on the invisible agency of unremarkable technologies and materials to reduce resource consumption, but which do so without producing a necessary shift in the public’s perception of the environment or behavior towards it. Instead, the projects and essays in SOUPERgreen! demonstrate how green technology can not only perform from a measurable standpoint, but can also produce engaging experiences that profoundly alter, enhance, and transform the public’s understanding of the environment. By leveraging the inherently expressive nature of technology in order to dramatize the constantly negotiated relationship between humanity and the natural world, the “souped up” green architecture featured in SOUPERgreen! transforms “greenness” from a calculation of environmental fitness into a dramatic performance of new environmental realities that reveal ways of engaging and understanding the world that are inherently more ecological.
SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays by:
Doug Jackson
Wes Jones
Marc Neveu
Aryan Crawford Omar
Steven Purvis
Randolph Ruiz
Mohamed Sharif
Sanford Kwinter