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Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College named 'most important green building'
August 9, 2010
Oberlin, OH - Oberlin's Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies is ranked as the most important green building constructed in the last 30 years, according to a survey conducted by Architect Magazine Contributing Editor Lance Hosey. From the article:
Hosey solicited feedback from 150 green building experts and advocates -- including architects, engineers, educators, and critics from the United States and around the world -- to name the "five most-important green buildings since 1980." He reported on results from the first 52 respondents, attempting to mirror the results of a survey in Vanity Fair's August issue that identifies "the greatest buildings of the last 30 years." While the winners in the Vanity Fair story represent the architectural elite (Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Renzo Piano's Menil Collection were the top vote-getters), Hosey took issue with the lack of green buildings in the survey and decided to conduct its own poll.
... As an integrated building-landscape center, the 13,600-square-foot structure houses classroom and office space, an auditorium, an environmental studies library and resource center, a wastewater-purification system in a greenhouse, and an open atrium. The building sits on 48,000 square feet of ecologically managed landscape, which includes a restored wetland, a lawn planted with a special low-mow mix, a small fruit orchard, and a raised-bed organic vegetable garden.
... "How people use the space is essential to a building's sustainability. Learning in a sun-soaked classroom and studying in the plant-filled atrium can help increase productivity," [Colin] Koffel says. "The Lewis Center is a living laboratory. It helped me understand how buildings work by exposing the building systems. The Lewis Center isn't just home to environmental studies. I also took classes in economics and cinema studies there, and it helped bring discussions of sustainability into those fields."
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center named 'most important green building'
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