Week 5

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Project 2 -- Literature review is due next Monday. The format is listed below. Please save a copy, edit the file name, the headings, and the content.

Resources

Here are some resources for your literature reviews:

Climate change

• https://www.ipcc.ch/ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a distinguished and authoritative group of academics and scientists charged by the United Nations to report on the best consensus science pertaining to global warming and climate change.
• https://climate.nasa.gov/ NASA provides extensive data and information about the Earth climate.
• https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Map Service can help you understand the threats to communities from hurricanes and other natural disasters.
• https://www.texascoastalatlas.com/AtlasViewers/CoastalAtlas/MainAtlas.html Coastal Texas Atlas provides lots of information about risks and threats along in our region.
• http://hrrc.arch.tamu.edu/ The Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center is housed in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University and is one of the world's foremost think tanks focused on hurricanes and other natural and artificial disasters. Look at the list of faculty and search their publications.

Sustainable buildings

• https://www.solardecathlon.gov/ Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. This is an incredibly extensive resource on sustainable, energy efficient architecture. It is based around a competition among architecture schools organized by the Federal Department of Energy, it will take some digging, but you can find reports and architectural construction documents for many (maybe all) of the submittals to the competition. Please look at the entry from Texas A&M University in 2007 competition. Professor Pliny Fisk III led the effort, with competitions by Dr. Jeff Haberl, Dr. Charles Culp and many others.
• https://www.fema.gov/building-code-resources Building codes and disaster resilient construction.
• https://www.fema.gov/building-codes-toolkit Checklists for resilient construction.
• https://www.tesla.com/energy Tesla makes solar cells and batteries for homes, too. NEW!
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k_RhWt_RnODFESMIHlVUG_pPBQdlB8mz Pliny Fisk III-- Creating a Maximum Potential Future is a biography of a pioneer in sustainable green design. It is a great source for concepts and resources in sustainable communities about a former Texas A&M faculty member. You can (and should) visit him at Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (see link below). NEW!
• https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2015 International Building Code is the most widely used regulation in America focused on how to build to protect public health, safety and welfare of the public. It addresses design and construction of commercial and institutional buildings. Most municipalities use the IBC as a "model" code -- they typically adopt the entire code but apply some "local amendments" to accommodate special conditions. NEW!
• https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2015 International Residential Code governs one to two family dwellings. IBC covers larger residential buildings. NEW!

Example communities

• https://serenbe.com/ Serenbe, Georgia. Dr. Phill Tabb, formerly head of the Texas A&M Department of Architecture, led the design of this innovative, sustainable community.
• https://nygrenplacemaking.com/ Nygren Placemaking. Steve Nygren was the developer and investor who created Serenbe. His consulting business helps other investors create similar sustainable communities.
• https://www.cmpbs.org/ Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. This research center located on the east side of Austin is run by Pliny Fisk III and Gail Vittori. Their tireless efforts over the last three decades are credited by many with giving Austin the reputation of a green city.
• http://cmpbs.org/library The digital library at CMPBS has some great resources. NEW!
• https://www.cmai.co.za/ CMAI Architects is the design firm founded by Chris Mulder in Knysna, South Africa.
• http://www.newurbanism.org/ New Urbanism is a theory and practice of urban development that runs contrary to common practice. It is often associated with traditionalism, but includes many other concepts and principles than merely style. It is focused upon creating beautiful, walkable, economically vibrant communities. It generally uses form-based codes to control development, rather than Euclidean zoning codes.
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rJ4mI11EA5rdGsFrXQMK2dmohvoiLq30 Thesen Island text only. This file contains the text from the coffee table book about Thesen Island, the highly successful development by CMAI Architects. The text is a great case study of quadruple net value development. NEW!

Literature review resources

• https://library.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M Libraries is an incredible resource for academic research. A simple Google search will overwhelm you with trivia, fake news, and opinion. Research based on science is available from the global academic network, of which Texas A&M is a part. As a TAMU student, you have full access to the full text of many or most of the articles listed.
• https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/ Scholars@TAMU is a wonderful resource for finding the scholarly impact of professors. Powered by Google, it collects articles, books, Web sites, mentions in the press, videos, and other material produced by each professor.
• https://scholar.google.com/ Scholarly papers are available here too. The advantage of Google Scholar is that it is constantly updated by Google's search engine and Web crawlers and it is easy to use. The disadvantage is that you may not be allowed to download the full text of many of the articles.

Brazos Valley heritage

• http://www.bvaam.org/ Brazos Valley African American Museum is a great resource for local history.
• http://www.brazosvalleymuseum.org/ Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is a good resource for learning about this region.
• http://wheretexasbecametexas.org/about/barrington-living-history-farm/ Barrington Farm, adjacent to Washington-on-the-Brazos, provides a living history of a 19th century farm, complete with dogtrot house, outbuildings, fields and gardens.
• https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/washington-brazos-state-historic-site Another resource for seeing historic architecture that grounds ones' understanding of Texas is Washington-on-the-Brazos. The grounds include the building where the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836.
• http://www.samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com/ The Sam Houston Museum in Huntsville has not only exhibits about the life of the Texas statesman and founder, but a wonderful collection of log houses and farm structures.
• https://www.cah.utexas.edu/museums/winedale.php The Briscoe Center at Winedale has a great collection of farm buildings from the 19th century.

Traditional crafts

• https://www.homesteadheritage.com/ Homestead Heritage is a quirky community near Waco that makes use of 19th century technology for farming, blacksmithing, grain grinding, weaving, carpentry, quilting and other crafts. If you visit, make reservations at the incredible farm-to-table restaurant.
• https://www.sustainlife.org/ The Ploughshare Institute, adjacent to Homestead, is a private school for teaching people technology for sustainability. Many of the topics are based on traditional craft and methods, but they also incorporate contemporary agricultural methods.