architectural videos: e² : season three by PBS on issues of sustainability and eco friendly architecture

video topic: sustainability, eco-friendly architecture
entry type: documentary
entry no: 19

video title: Part 1 - A Garden in Cairo
                Part 2 - The Village Architect
                Part 3 - Melbourne Reborn
                Part 4 - The Art and Science of Renzo Piano
                Part 5 - New Orleans: The Water Line
                Part 6 - Super Use

architect featured: mixed
series host: PBS
video series: e²
run time: 26 min
size: 800 mb

courtesy: http://www.pbs.org/e2/design.html
http://www.e2-series.com/
http://www.downarchive.com/forums/tv-shows/5219-pbs-e-design-season-3-2008-complete-series-720p-hdtv.html

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to download and know about season I episodes, click HERE

e² design is an ongoing PBS series about the pioneers and innovators in the field of sustainable architecture, and how their work is producing solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges. Now entering its third season, the series features compelling stories from around the globe: Beijing to Nova Scotia, Ladakh to New York. Each episode examines the built environment's effects — both ecological, and social — and the design innovations that can reduce buildings' contribution to climate change.

e² design is narrated by Brad Pitt.

Season III

e² design is an ongoing PBS series about the pioneers and innovators in the field of sustainable architecture, and how their work is producing solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges. Now entering its third season, the series features compelling stories from around the globe: Beijing to Nova Scotia, Ladakh to New York. Each episode examines the built environment's effects — both ecological, and social — and the design innovations that can reduce buildings' contribution to climate change.

Part 1: A Garden in Cairo
Cairo, a city of 16 million, is one of the most densely populated in the world, with only one square foot of green space per person prior to 2005. His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, saw the need to relieve this congestion. The result is Al-Azhar Park: a 500-year-old dump-turned-"urban lung" that provides much-needed green space and a source of civic pride.

Part 2: The Village Architect
Architect Brian MacKay-Lyons grew up on the shipyards of Nova Scotia and borrows from that lean, economical building tradition in his architecture. From the Barn Yard in his village to the Canadian Embassy in Bangladesh, this episode presents a lesson in local vernacular - why it works and how it might be the most sustainable form of architecture there is.

Part 3: Melbourne Reborn
By the mid-1970s, Melbourne was a dying city. People commuted in to work during the day, but downtown became a ghost town after 5 p.m. This episode explores how leadership and vision transformed the cityscape. Rob Adams, Melbourne's director of design and urban environment, gives a guided tour to show how the city first sought livability, then sustainability, and how the two are inextricably intertwined.

Part 4: The Art and Science of Renzo Piano
World-class architect Renzo Piano draws on nature to create a structure that defines a natural history museum for the 21st century. Combining Piano's signature transparency design with a green roof evoking its surroundings, San Francisco's new California Academy of Sciences provides a model for sustainability, and sets a benchmark for how people use, operate and interact with public buildings.

Part 5: New Orleans: The Water Line
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the citizens of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward weren't about to watch their community disappear, even as government officials at all levels turned a blind eye to their plight. This story profiles community leaders fighting to rebuild the neighborhood sustainably, and the outsiders — including renowned architect Bob Berkebile, and organizations Global Green and Brad Pitt's Make It Right — who are working to make this possible.

Part 6: Super Use
The partners of 2012 Architecten in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, are making surplus superfluous, reusing everything from I-beams, wood floors, car tires, washing machines, stainless steel sinks and even windmill blades as building materials in their creations. 2012 Architecten’s work suggests not only a new kind of aesthetic and functionality in sustainable architecture, but also a new approach to design.

Credit line:

NARRATED BY
Brad Pitt

DIRECTOR
Tad Fettig

SERIES PRODUCER
Elizabeth Westrate

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Karena Albers and Tad Fettig

EDITOR
Lars Woodruffe

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Robert Humphreys

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Beth Levison

PRODUCERS
Eva Anisko
Midori Willoughby

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Julie Kirsner

FIELD PRODUCER
Adam Elend

SERIES ADVISOR
Phillip G. Bernstein

NARRATION WRITER
Mark Decena

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Eric Holland

COMPOSITION ASSISTANT
Michael Schuler

MUSIC ASSISTANT
Kurt Schlegel

SOUND RECORDIST
Diane Weidenkopf

POST PRODUCTION
Outsider, Inc.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR OUTSIDER, INC.
Michael LaBellarte

POST PRODUCTION PRODUCER FOR OUTSIDER, INC.
Rene' Steinkellner

ASSISTANT EDITORS
Lucas Lee Anderson
Hideaki Charles Sato

SOUND MIXER
Vagabond Audio
Drew Weir

ONLINE EDITORIAL
Outsider, Inc.
Christopher Mines

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Aharon Bourland

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
Zalia Torres Franco
Brandt Gassman
Michael Hargett

INTERNS
Susan Chau
Rebecca Israel
Daniel Martinez
Megan Paulus
Jeff Polley
Mary Sack

TRANSCRIBERS
Sara Barnes
Marsha Talcin

RESEARCHERS
Edward Albers
Jessica Berman-Bogdan
Reginald Curtis
Heather Morrison
Emer Nuala O'Donovan

LEGAL
Brian Heidelberger
Susan L. Storiale
Steven Worth

SPECIAL THANKS
Beatriz Marina Bours
Eduardo Parada, PROVAY
Brent Pickett
Eve Charlotte Bolger

MATERIALS COURTESY OF
Steve Badanes
Byron Baker
Catherine Craig
Brad Deal
Tad Fettig
Five Spot Films
MUnica Escobedo Fuentes
Sarah Gamble
Travis Greig
Owen Gump
Jessica Liu
Pino Marchese
Jennifer Mifeck
Emily Moore
Kate Moxham
Sergio Palleroni
PROVAY
Jay Sanders
Andrea Schelly
Kristin Will

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e² : season three by PBS on issues of sustainability and eco friendly architecture

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