Products In Environmentally-friendly ('green') architecture & design (Total Products 62, Showing: 1 -> 32)
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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...
Everything you need to make the most of building informationmodeling If you're looking to get involved in the world of BIM, but don'tquite know where ...
'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...
The most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discov...
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...
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...
Showcasing one hundred years of innovation and environmental sensitivity, Handmade Houses celebrates some of the world's most idiosyncratic homes from...
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...
This monograph covers MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects complete work. Introductions by renowned architectural writers set the scene, while individual projects are illustrated through evocative photographs and detailed plans and drawings. What emerges is a celebration of an architecture that is both practical and deeply poetic.
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 ...
You are going to be transported by what Bernheimer has to say. You'll make different decisions and figure out how your brain is working and what shou...
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
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...
This newest addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series, long admired for its willingness to propose architectural solutions to challenging problems ...
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
Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes is an illustrated
practical design guide to delivering better energy pe...
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...
Color is a ubiquitous yet essential part of the city, creating and shaping urban form. Who can forget the whites of modernist Brasilia? The greens of ...
Can nature-in all its unruly wildness-be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-win...
Not far from Le Corbusier?s famed Villa Savoye lies Poissy Galore: a visionary project that brings together architecture, education and leisure within...
Gathering together the world's leading experts on vernacular architecture, this once-in-a generation publication examines how local buildings have stood the test of time and offer vital lessons for the future. The core of the book is arranged by climate zone, from desert to tropical, temperate to arctic. Within each section, buildings are presented
Intended as a 'one stop shop' of a veritable who's who of
leading urban agriculture authors and scholars, this book brings together
multiple contribut...
Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction: LEED, BREEAM, and Green Globes, Second Edition directly addresses the needs of building profession...
Throughout the world, Passive House is now recognised as the best method to create comfortable, healthy, low energy buildings and it is a key componen...
Embodied
and Whole Life Carbon thinking will change
the way buildings are designed, yet carbon
emissions associated with the construction and life of ...
This book is a highly illustrated
'atlas', taking the reader on a journey via four distinct 'steps'
(recycling, reuse, reduce, closed loop), from a li...
In
his seminal new book, Bill Dunster demonstrates that zero-carbon, zero-waste
design doesn't have to come with a hefty price tag, and is achievable ...
Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyle, are made with ...