Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

In architecture, a facade is the skin of a building. Eco-Friendly Building Facade demonstrates just how important this 'skin' is by illustrating it...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energ...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor envi...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor envi...

All architects hoping to design to the Passive House standard need to know how to use The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book provides...

This book aims to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributio...

Companies are becoming more aware of the public relations value of the green agenda to their business and are including information on their sustai...

An exploration into the work of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, as it tests what is possible with regenerative design and the outcome when...

This book takes you through 53 homes that reflect the growing trend for environmentally friendly houses. Resource- and energy-efficient residences ...

In Building A Low Impact Roundhouse Tony Wrench shares his many years of experience, his skills and techniques, his ups and downs, always in a witt...

Presented here are the assemblies and subsystems used in Ken Yeang's projects, illustrating the ways in which ecological architecture could advance...

The concept of ''''the triple bottom line'''' has recently emerged to describe a new framework for development aimed at achieving economic and soci...

Buildings are made completely of materials. Hence, in this book, the characteristics of materials used in green buildings is elaborated on, includi...

In its 11th edition the International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning continues to attract academics, policy makers, practitione...

Featuring the work of 25 artists from diverse backgrounds, this triennial addresses the topic of architecture and permanence by exploring history a...

Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to th...

The first highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to light straw clay - a high performance, low-impact, durable building material Light straw cla...

It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level. However, improving ener...

Reducing Boundaries offers a new perspective on an often under researched topic: what is the upper and middle classes perception of their own secur...

The rising cost of fuel and the growing commit­ment to protect the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction. Showc...

In Germany, working with existing structures has become the architect''s most important task, the objective being to recognize and redevelop the en...

This eye-opening book reports the results of a large-scale study based on extensive financial and technical analyses of more than 150 green buildin...

Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green b...

Containing the proceedings of the latest in a series of conferences on the emerging topic of eco-architecture, this book presents the newest resear...

The light - a mysterious, weightless, almost non-material substance, that surrounds all of us, that brings the peace of the day at every dawn, that...

Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economi...

Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while s...

101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. In an area where ever-changing technolog...