中文简介：

埃米利奥·安柏兹（Emilio Ambasz）被誉为绿色建筑的“父亲”、“诗人”和“先知”，他倡导任何建筑或设计项目都必须提出新的或更好的生活方式，否则将被视为不道德。作为一位获奖无数的建筑师、工业设计师和形式保护者，他发明了高效发动机、模块化家具、路灯、灵活的笔、可扩展的手提箱等多种产品，并与Giancarlo Piretti合作创造了Vertebra椅子——世界上**把自动人体工程学椅子，现在是纽约现代艺术博物馆和大都会艺术博物馆**收藏品之一。

长期以来，作为建筑学的先驱，安柏兹始终坚持对环境及更广泛意义上的生态环境的信念。正如本书导言所指出："他的'绿色高于灰色'哲学，在后现代主义时期可能经常被置若罔闻；但今天看来，则具有深远意义"。在当下背景下，本书考虑了他在三个主要集中领域——建筑、工业设计和策展方面的工作，旨在阐明其跨学科性质。

本书介绍了安柏兹已经取得标志性名声的建筑和制造设计，并挑战其他人接近调和建筑与自然的新方法。还考虑了他作为MoMA的策展人的工作以及他持续的影响和遗产。

英文简介：

Famously labeled the “father, poet, and prophet” of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning architect, industrial designer, and protean maker of forms. He has invented highly efficient engines, modular furniture, streetlights, flexible pens, expandable suitcases, ergonomic door handles, wrist computers, and 3D posters. In collaboration with Giancarlo Piretti, he created the Vertebra chair, the first automatic ergonomic chair in the world, now part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Long a pioneer in architecture, Ambasz has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger ecology, as fundamental in viewing the world: as the author notes in the introduction, “his philosophy of 'green over gray' may often have fallen on deaf ears at the height of Postmodernism, but it today seems profoundly relevant.” And it is in the context of today that the book considers his work and its three main areas of concentration—architecture, industrial design, curating—with an aim of shining a light on the interdisciplinary nature of the work as a whole.

Featuring built and manufactured designs that have achieved iconic fame and challenged others to approach new ways of reconciling architecture and nature, the book also considers Ambasz's work as curator at MoMA and his ongoing influence and legacy.