Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements,...

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s...

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s...

Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architect...

Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architect...

Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the p...

Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that ...

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

‘Michael Zaretsky’s Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book … it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology...

The UN identifies chemical usage as a particular global concern, destructive to land, water and air, negatively affecting both human health and env...

The story of the author’s cabin build in the wilderness, packed with practical advice for aspiring builders and insights into of the history of cab...

The Second Edition of Sustainable Residential Interiors addresses cutting edge processes, strategies, and principles as well as details for in-dept...

Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles Written by an architect who is the directo...

Practical information on designing sustainable, energy-efficient building facades As energy and other natural resources are being depleted, it has ...

This primer for architects explores the basic physical principles and requirements of every aspect of passive and active controls in buildings. Avo...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Während die meisten Hochhäuser nach wie vor in China und den USA ge...

Your hands-on, day-to-day guide to small practice. This book provides reassurance as to how to achieve great results on a budget, utilising strippe...

Pressing Matters VII captures the next-generation design and research facilitated by the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvan...

Around the world people are choosing to live small—whether it’s downsizing from a large home or converting a van into a house on wheels. This gorge...

How can we explore the world in a way that respects the environment and local communities, but do so without sacrificing comfort? Renowned photogra...

Forty international projects in six categories present the most innovative and forward-looking solutions, whose contribution to building culture de...

In Wolfsburg lebt es sich anders. Die durchgrünte Stadtlandschaft mit zahlreichen Plätzen und Grünanlagen ist überwiegend in den 1950er und 1960er ...

Hack the Grid documents a series of large-scale light installations produced in Pittsburgh by New Mexico–based environmental artist Andrea Polli (b...

The green architecture movement is a worldwide phenomenon that addresses sustainability and a parallel awareness of how the built world is enriched...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Lieferkettenprobleme und Arbeitskräftemangel aufgrund der COVID-19-...

Devised for Château La Coste, Mater Earth takes us into the heart of humanity and the myths of creation. Prune Nourry created a monumental sculptur...

Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conven...

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the r...

For Christopher Day, architecture isn’t just about the appearance of buildings but how they’re experienced as places to be in. Occupants’ experienc...

From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights in...

In Exceptional Treehouses, author and treehouse builder Alain Laurens reveals 30 gorgeous treehouse structures, 25 of which are entirely new creati...

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented project...

Nomos is an association of architects based in Geneva, Lisbon and Madrid. They collaborate on projects of all scales, from furniture to master plan...

First published in 2009, Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism is a detailed round of pedagogical dialogue on architecture and urban...

Founded in 2001 by Martin Bez and Thorsten Kock, the 50-strong team at bez+kock architekten is largely commissioned as the result of competitions. ...

This publication impressively summarises the underlying research on the theme of energy by the Chair of Gion A. Caminada. Structured into 12 sectio...

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented project...

Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier a...

Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them t...

Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them t...

Cities and regions worldwide are faced with sweeping processes of transformation: social and demographic change, digitalization, and new technologi...

A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of a...