Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

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...