Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? "Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies" is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home-even a green home-uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or ...
Reflecting the latest developments in the green building movement, and updated to include coverage of LEED 2009, "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition" guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's ...
With more and more clients and architecture schools demanding green design, both student and professional architects need to get up to speed quickly with the vast range of techniques in this fast moving area. This extensive and user-friendly handbook presents practical guidelines for applying environmental strategies during the schematic design of ...
From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or 'green, ' homes. ...
A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), ...
In 1992, Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create homes and community buildings for the poor while offering hands-on architecture training for coming generations. This new book explains the changes the studio has undergone since his death.176 pp.
This is a thorough, informative and up-to-date reference on green, sustainable and energy-efficient home construction. Starting with clear explanations of the concepts and fundamentals of green, healthy and energy-efficient construction, this book walks readers through the entire construction process, injecting expert advice at every decision ...
For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction. This is the only book that provides truly useful information to architects, engineers, building officials and builders who want to design ...
Design, restorative building, biophilia, enhanced air quality and high performance building systems. Written by leading national experts on the subject - one of whom was recognized by "Time" magazine as a green innovator - "Sustainable Healthcare Architecture" is the key guide to designing sustainable healthcare facilities. Building on the authors ...
A real-world DESIGN tool for sustainable design In this comprehensive guide, the world's largest architectural/engineering design firm helps architects, engineers, planners, interior designers, and landscape architects integrate sustainable design strategies into their work. Featuring twenty-four case studies of a variety of international HOK ...
A follow-up to the highly successful "XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings," this book features contemporary solutions to two of today's most challenging problems-how to conserve space and help save the environment. The design goals of the 40 houses included here are to build as small as possible, to harmonize with the site, to use natural heating and ...
"Green Homes" presents the latest developments in sustainable architecture and design. After an introductory interview with an international specialist in green building, the book features 35 projects, including houses, apartments, and lofts. Each project contains photographs, floor plans, and detailed drawings that illustrate certain sustainable ...
The world of residential building is poised to do great things. The guidance, information, materials and technology, while ever-evolving, are in place. Now it's the hearts and minds that must follow. "Modern Sustainable Residential Design" is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that can help. So let's get started. From the foreword by Allison ...
Drawn from over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), this volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form. Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the ...
Whilst France's contemporary architecture is highly regarded throughout the world, her architects have not been leading protagonists in the debate on ecological building. The developments featured in this book, however, should serve to correct this impression. Between 1999 and 2002 Electricite de France (EDF) initiated an ambitious search ...
In the past decade, a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - have sought fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise ...
This title helps to meet the challenge of Sustainable Design. 'Daniel Williams' "Sustainable Design" is ...a thoroughly practical call for the design professions to take the next steps toward transformation of the human prospect toward a future that is sustainable and sustaining of the best in human life lived in partnership not domination' - From ...
This landmark publication examines the need for establishing a universal framework for assessing the sustainability of a place that can be used for any place, in any part of the world. Using two case studies of two towns (San Gimignano, Italy and Ludlow, England) as a backdrop, the book examines their distinctive features and develops a framework ...
"The Contemporary Design Details" series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving ...
There is increasing attention to the need to preserve and improve the global environment for current and future generations. This book summarizes new research done in this area based on a number of important collaborative projects in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. "Sustainable Urban Housing in China" features case studies and ...
This well illustrated text forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in a new world order at the start of the 21st century. The book defines architectural and environmental goals for the New Age by analysing recent contemporary work for its responsiveness to important social and environmental issues and ...
What are the real costs and real benefits of building green? As any builder knows, cost estimation and reality are often two very different things. "The Green Building Bottom Line" makes the case for green building by providing the insights and data that demonstrate the true costs and benefits of building green. It's a "why to" and a "how to" ...
Today, more than ever, multi-family housing is recognised as vital to modern, urban communities. This type of housing requires immense dexterity from an architectural perspective, because while promoting a sense of community living, a sense of aesthetics must also prevail. Michael J. Crosbie has selected more than 45 remarkable examples of multi ...
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