European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes january 1981 j6 modern living sloping roof has collectors for solar heating awning like overhangs give Shade from High summer letting in Low Winter Energy conscious regionalism Villap Stevie Arutin Tufie by Rick Hampson associated press Energy conscious regionalism is creeping into american producing handsome buildings whose shape and doors and color and location Are keyed to the climate and the starting in new where a solar style is builders Are returning to lessons regional build ers Learned hundreds of years in those compact Saltbox cottages withstood new England cold Winters stilted Louisiana Delta houses offered Protection from the Sun above and the Damp ground below Adobe haciendas faced a courtyard and away from the Dusty streets of the these were not Happy accidents of Early often faced with freezing or baking or had to create buildings that withstood extreme climates without help from heating or Cooling As americans prospered they began to mix and match architectural Many of them luxurious european the regional styles declined because cheap Energy and technology allowed people to live and work in what Ever they wherever they before Long they wanted French provincial houses in georgian colonials in and Western ranch Homes downtown business districts across the nation shared one their skyscrapers designed in the same fashions by the same it was fun while it but Freedom from climate lasted Only As Long As cheap in new Reliance on foreign Oil has forced designers to search for what architects Norton Juster and Earl Pope of Shel Burne describe As a relationship with the environment other than brute the question says is How do you build for where you Are the severe Pioneer styles will never because simple insulation alone can save enough Money to allow people to continue to build in styles with which they Are familiar and but designer Lisa Heschong argues that the shift to Ward regionalism is because people feel often about Relief from heat or shutters and fireplaces became Staples of design because they were but endure now As vestigial sym Bols of Thermal one potentially potent Force for regionalism is the de Pannent of Energy controversial building Energy performance standards for new federally financed although the standards called Are being they already have been compared in importance to Auto pollution standards issued in the they would require that new buildings be designed to use no More than a certain amount of Energy per Square How much would depend on that would mean significant differences in Basic de you cant just double the insulation and the Glass the most important stage of building is where Interior configuration and fenestration the arrangement of windows and doors Are says example the compact northeastern solar style which turns its Back on the cold North wind and faces the Southern Sun through doors and its sloping designed to accommodate solar collectors and to Shade is becoming As familiar As the victorian Turret was 100 years the solar style also is influencing the in their design for the Channing Bete Headquarters in Juster and Pope created a virtual Bunker albeit a handsome one for the Energy ledges Over the South facing windows Block the High summer Sun but admit the Low Winter sloping earthen Walls protect the buildings its Low profile is interrupted dramatically by a raised skylight that brings sunlight into the main its heat builds up in a masonry Wall and is circulated by fans As it slowly buildings in the Southwest win feature even More South facing Glass than the Northeast because of the regions fair skies and mild houses May be although one and frequently entered around like the Clif dwelling Pueblo southwestern builders Are using materials that absorb heat by Day and release it after dark a perfect solution to the hot Days and Cool nights of the in the Earth insulated underground build Ings like the University of Minnesota Bookstore Are be coming a popular Way to mitigate the misery of hot Summers and cold even the one constant in solar design heat from the Sun will vary from Region to a Well designed building in sunny los for might be Able to get by without an Active solar heating on the other might require a system with batteries to save heat for its Many Cloudy although Hugh Stubbins associates Citicorp Tower in new York City tips its hat to the solar style with a South sloping Many Large buildings still seem oblivious to the solar established architects were slower to accept the gospel of Energy conservative and Many projects now under construction were designed before the Advent of the Post Oil but the time will come when you wont be seeing Glass buildings that look the same on All four sides in All sorts of climates with machines in the basement making them says design consultant Marguerite Vil you May be Able to know which Side of a building youre on by the Way its under the theory of solar Access advanced by Ralph a University of Southern California a building would not be allowed to Block another Sun Knowles says entire communities could be Laid out according to the pattern of the suns passage from East to West across the Southern will preoccupation with the climate and Energy imprison limiting aesthetic options v not according to who Calls the new move ment the most significant change in design since the the German Art school of the 1920s at Wei mar headed by Walter where modern architecture she there is an Opportunity to develop an architecture of Richness and dynamic form and satisfy one of Mankind oldest desires a Comfort efficient place in the