Products In Environmentally-friendly ('green') architecture & design (Total Products 62, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenge...
Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyle, are made with ...
'Addictive ... a charter for wistfulness' Observer'An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times'The Bible of pared back, natural l...
This book presents 25 inspirational housing schemes providing hope for the future of home building in Britain. Highlighting the need for the UK to rec...
How far can we expand the concept of 'urban nature'? How would it make us feel? And how is it going to transform our cities - and, eventually, ourselves? 'Garden City' captures the growing global movement among contemporary architects for biodesigning buildings less as skin and bodies - structure and facade - and more as living entities, capable of
By reading this book, you will develop the skills to perceive a space and its contents in light, and be able to devise a layout of luminaires that wil...
Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored how artists and designers around the globe transform castoff materials into elegant domestic furnishi...
This text provides details of over 25 international HOK projects in which sustainability, the consideration of environmental, economic and cultural impact of modern building practices, is of central concern.
Christina Strutt of Cabbages & Roses reveals how to have a calmer, healthier, eco-friendly home.
Saving the planet for future generations is a la...
150 BEST ECO HOUSE IDEAS The newest volume in the highly successful 150 Best series-joining 150 Best House Ideas and 150 Best Apartment Ideas-150 Be...
Is there no escape from an economy that devours nature in the name of endless growth? John Thackara's answer is a rousing 'yes, there is!' Drawing on ...
Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel...
The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents p...
This book aims to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributions ...
Despite
an increasing demand for energy-efficient design, it is generally accepted that
architects rarely return to their creations to ensure that the...
In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasing...
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.*LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE**'You will marvel a...
Bad experiences with construction quality, the energy crises of 1973 and 1979, complaints about 'sick buildings', thermal, acoustical, visual and olfactory discomfort, the move towards more sustainability; all have accelerated the development of a field, which for a long time was hardly more than an academic exercise: building physics. Through the
Since the publication of Treehouses of the World, the community of treehouse builders has grown tremendously, and many more innovative treehouses have...
If not used for shipping they are anything but boring Pallets are a universal symbol of the globalized world. The properties of this transport platfor...