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One Afternoon Several Months AGO, we found ourselves waiting in the quiet, impossibly picturesque Swiss town of Domat/ems to meet an architect named Dietrich Schwarz. though still in his thirties, Schwarz has already earned a reputation as one of Switzerland’s leading practitioners of the environmentally friendly approach to architecture known as sustainable, or “green,” design. using a combination of new, high-tech materials—some of his own invention—and old-fashioned architectural wisdom, he creates houses and other buildings that are snugly energy-efficient and sit lightly on the land.
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(2005). Introduction. In: The Green House. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-639-4_1
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