Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation a...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 7th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS 2024) held ...

Providing a complete and in-depth overview of the available knowledge in the area of low energy and low carbon architecture. The scope of this edit...

FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation, reflection, change and transformation in architecture.This book explores the ways in whi...

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civ...

In addition to the application of fundamental principles that lead to a structured method for zero carbon design of buildings, this considerably ex...

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per...

Microalgae architecture has gained awareness for its biotechnical potential to achieve net-zero energy architecture while also promoting ecological...

Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...

Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik...

From its creation in January 2012, The Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture ...

Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, b...

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in ...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core pres...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core pres...

Retrofit for Purpose explores the art and science of bringing energy efficiency to existing buildings; one of the biggest challenges facing the ind...

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook o...

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective...

The energy used to operate buildings is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. While it is possible to reduce emissions t...

Eco-minimalism: the antidote to eco-bling reminds us that to build energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex, comp...

This latest edition of Rough Guide to Sustainability remains a simple, no-nonsense reference source for all students and practitioners of sustainab...

For the past quarter-century, mainstream architecture has proceeded on the underlying belief that we have the resources to build whatever and as mu...