Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant chal...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

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

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domes...

Programming for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture presents a new approach to architectural programming that includes sustainability, neuroscienc...

As a collection of ecological evaluations and key building physics data, the Details for Passive Houses is a classic in every design library and th...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing reconstruction process ...

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Fore...

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

Consider this How do we handle the convergence of landscape architecture, ecological planning, and civil engineering? What are convenient ter...

Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to makefrom ingenious ways to rede...

Part-to-part relationships and the approach to governing their sensibilities is at the root of all architecture. The need for engaging in a dialogu...

Part-to-part relationships and the approach to governing their sensibilities is at the root of all architecture. The need for engaging in a dialogu...

This book synthesizes perspectives on how place is deeply intertwined with our spirituality and well-being. Split into three sections, this book br...

Net Zero has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signalling a goal of having every building generate at least as much e...

What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...

Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of de...

urality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely-themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things. Each comprises five or six divers...

The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and envir...

Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable, and efficient housing, and good building design and construction starts ...

This book presents select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Clean Energy Technologies (ICET 2023) and exa...

Architecture and Social Change is a timely, and urgently needed, survey of social and environmental justice advocacy in architecture. Spotlighting ...

Architecture and Social Change is a timely, and urgently needed, survey of social and environmental justice advocacy in architecture. Spotlighting ...

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically...

The book presents the select proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention. It covers the latest research in multidisciplinary areas within...

This book contains peer-reviewed and selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste M...

In this book, Clarkeson reads Palladio's drawings as being carefully crafted, having integrity in their own right, with their own story to tell, an...

This book explores the history and evolution of city centers and provides practical guidance for designing successful city centers, emphasizing the...

Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um eine Sammlung erweiterter Fassungen von Vorträgen, die auf dem internationalen KES-Gipfel Covid-19 Herausforderu...

Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book...

This book presents 18 in-depth case studies of net zero energy buildingslow-energy building that generate as much energy as they consume over the c...

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

This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital tra...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...

Sustainable soil stabilization solutions aim to maintain a perfect balance between infrastructure performance and the social, economic and ecologic...

Explore the forefront of urban resilience and sustainability with this groundbreaking collection of research and insights. From the 5th edition of ...

For several decades the concepts of ecology and sustainability have generated influential currents of opinion in society, affecting all areas of ou...

In recent decades, there has been a growing awareness of environmental issues in society as a whole, mainly due to the increasingly serious consequ...

Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...

Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building P...

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building P...

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building P...

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building P...