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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-6

Examines the material and energy networks currently utilized to transfer resources from the natural world to the built environment. Theories and tools of industrial ecology are used to reveal opportunities for creating ecologies of construction; that is, mutually beneficial relationships between distinct components of the industry of construction that may be made to act symbiotically. Both the production and consumption of the architectural artifact is reviewed using tools of analysis that physically account for the flow of materials into and out of various spatial and temporal scales and boundaries.

J. Fernandez

Materials from this class are available on OpenCourseWare.