Many great designers are incorporating ethical elements into design practices but don't overtly advertise this because they feel sustainable fashion gets a bad aesthetic rap.
The survey's respondents showed preferences for practical and low-maintenance landscapes (94percentt), indigenous plants (87percentt), and sustainable design practices (75percentt).
So adopting building and design practices and materials that reduce energy use and emissions can make a big difference.
He formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Edward Williams, that evolved into EDAW, one of the leading landscape design practices in the country.
Mr. Sexton said he knew that traditional design practices of multiple drawings, testing and revision would not work within the budget constraints.
OMA/Progress Established in 1975, Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metropolitan Architecture is one of the most challenging of all design practices.
Such far-flung activities helped Bertone and other companies, in a reverse exchange of experience, gather the best technology and design practices.
Four urban design practices, three from the Netherlands, have been appointed to sketch out ideas on an 80-acre section of the area.
The fact that one of Britain's most exciting new design practices is named after a social research organization formed in the 1930s is not a coincidence.
(See Sidebar ) The massive human losses were attributed in part to relatively poor building construction and the lack of earthquake-resistant design practices.
Changes in design practices can be challenging.
