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200 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.
'Practice with Purpose' is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society’s most urgent challenges, the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings. To successfully contend with these ecological and societal emergencies, the design values and practice of architecture must be rapidly transformed within the next decade. Architects must become creative agents of change, providing the vision and skill to lead our communities toward an equitable, climate-positive future for all. Twenty years ago, San Francisco-based Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects rededicated its practice to focus on these urgent issues. Its mission-driven designs not only address the critical concerns of twenty-first century architecture, but also bring clients and users into the dialogue. LMSA’s award-winning works show the creative potential of building a practice with purpose. In this book, LMSA shares its experience and insight as a call to action to the architecture profession. Through case studies, data-driven essays, user testimonials and thought-provoking questions, LMSA offers design strategies to architects who want to make an environmental and social impact.
Foreword. Taking action in practice / Edward Mazria -- Preface. Mission-driven design / William Leddy, Marsha Maytum, and Richard Stacy -- Introduction. From constructed reality to practice with purpose / Robert McCarter -- Climate action: Designing a zero-carbon future. Architects are change agents. Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation ; Nueva School Hillside Learning Complex ; Edwin M. Lee Apartments -- Equity: Architecture is for everyone. Architecture is a social justice issue. Ed Roberts Campus ; Sweetwater Spectrum Community ; Rene Cazenave Apartments -- Habitation: Housing the unhoused. Housing is a human right. Plaza Apartments ; Merritt Crossing ; Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House -- Education: Twenty-first-century schools. Schools are living laboratories for resilience. Nueva School at Bay Meadows ; Michael J. Homer Science and Student Life Center ; Walker Hall -- Adaptation: Adaptive reuse in a climate-positive world. Adaptation turns the past into the future. San Francisco Art Institute ; Commonwealth Club of California ; he Bay School of San Francisco -- Take action: Design a mission-driven practice