DI Library: Senior Project (ID 395): Inspiration

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Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture (ebook) by Bryan Bell
Highlights projects that serve communities traditionally underserved by professional architects and designers. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).
Rural Studio at Twenty (ebook) by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean; Timothy Hursley (Photographer); Andrew Freear; Elena Barthel
Explores the sustainable houses and community buildings designed and built by the students of Auburn University’s Rural Studio. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

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Abduzeedo Design Inspiration & Tutorials
Showcases recent architecture, interior design, product design, typography, illustration and more
Architecture Sans Frontières
Features projects by Architecture Sans Frontières, an organization committed to addressing social and environmental issues related to the built environment. Their quarterly Newsletter and bi-annual Awards highlight the latest work of their members
Design for Good | DI Library on Pinterest
Brings together socially responsible architecture and design projects from some of the best online sources
Public Interest Design | ArchDaily
Highlights new socially responsible projects around the world, with photographs, floor plans, sections, and site plans
The SEED Network | Case Studies
Features projects that used the SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) standard to measure the social, economic and environmental impacts
Lessons from a Modern Master of Low-Rise Housing | Bloomberg CityLab
Examines the architect Louis Sauer, who specialized in high-quality, high-density, low-rise housing in a modernist style during the 1960s and ’70s.

Books in the DI Library

50 Design Questions Answered by Arup Arup Design
Call Number: NA 2750 .A55 2013
Showcases innovative design solutions that enable people to live safer, healthier and better lives
By the People: Designing a Better America by Cynthia Smith
Call Number: NK 1404.2 .S65 2016
Explores ways in which design can challenge poverty and social inequality through housing, community centers, libraries, arts facilities, parks, transit, and more
Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture by Bryan Bell
Call Number: NA 7540 .G66 2003
Highlights projects that serve communities traditionally underserved by professional architects and designers
Industry of Nature by Elodie Ternaux
Call Number: QH 541 .T467 2012
Describes nature’s solutions to challenges including protection, temperature regulation, self-cleaning, and many more
Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Call Number: NA 2850 .B758 2013
Focuses on commercial, residential and institutional interiors designed for existing buildings
Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things by Rebecca Roke
Call Number: NA 7533 .R65 2016
Features a wide range of very small structures
The Power of Pro Bono by John Cary and Public Architecture
Call Number: NA 2543 .S6 P69 2010
Highlights pro bono design projects, including housing, schools, libraries, art galleries, clinics, camps, and community centers
Rematerial by Alejandro Bahamon; Maria Camila Sanjines
Call Number: NA 2542.36 .B3413 2010
Showcases projects that use discarded materials, from paper cups to cargo containers, as building materials
Rural Studio at Twenty by Andrew Freear, et al.
Call Number: NA 2300 .A9 F74 2014
Explores the sustainable houses and community buildings designed and built by the students of Auburn University’s Rural Studio
Thriving Beyond Sustainability by Andrés R. Edwards; Andrés R. Edwards
Call Number: HC 79 .E5 E39 2010
Explores projects around the world that focus on environmental conservation, social transformation, and ecological design
Vitamin Green by Phaidon Press (Editor); Johanna Agerman Ross (Contribution by); Joshua Bolchover
Call Number: NA 2542.36 .V58 2012
Highlights sustainable buildings, interiors, landscapes and products around the world