Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

Get the comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of schools. The elementary and secondary school buildings and campuses built today are the s...

Green Social Housing explores the ideas, inspirations and factors that need to be taken into account in order to achieve new and advanced typologie...

In this planning guide, the renowned lighting designer Ulrike Brandi documents all her findings on the topics of lighting design, daylight, sustain...

Sustainability is to become the guiding principle of social action and economic activity. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear....

New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative mul...

Gion Caminada is well-known far beyond Switzerland’s borders: as an architect, whose work is developed out of – and gives new life to – its context...

This collection of ecological evaluations and data on structural physics is a classic in every design library. Planners, architects, and clients wi...

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways. First, there is a critical approa...

Design is a process that requires freedom and rigour, expansion and focus. But how can a place be transformed through a tangible, meaningful vision...

The 11th ISVS (International Seminar for Vernacular Settlements) that was hosted by the School of Environmental Design and Architecture, Navrachana...

Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in wh...

The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, this illustrated dictionary p...

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferati...

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate disci...

Interior Design for Small Dwellings addresses the onrush of interest in smaller homes and the possibility that small dwellings might be the answer ...

Second and revised edition The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city cl...

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the co...

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment...

Energy Rating is a crucial consideration in modern building design, affirmed by the new EC Directive on the energy performance of buildings. Energy...

Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoni...

Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the...

In addition to conserving energy, the use of daylight in architecture can be a powerful aesthetic tool. The effective employment of natural lightin...

Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in t...

Should all-inclusive engagement be the major task of architecture? All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change pr...

A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of “room temperature”...

Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design s...