Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design

Das Handbuch in erweiterter 6. Auflage Die erweiterte deutsche 6.Auflage dieses Standardwerks für die Baukonstruktion wurde inhaltlich weiterent...

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in...

Explosion Green tells the twenty-year story of the global green building movement through the eyes of David Gottfried, the man who helped start it ...

The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no mo...

9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed ...

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based an...

Despite an uncertain economy, the market for green building is projected to grow and strengthen. But, says green-building pioneer Sim Van der Ryn, ...

With the emergence of sick building syndrome in the 1970s and the emphasis on LEED standards today, many interior designers are becoming interested...

This fully illustrated monograph is dedicated to architect Pierre-Louis Faloci, 2018 Laureate of the Grand Prix national de l’architecture and auth...

For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable techn...

For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable techn...

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Question...

"That's what we do really: we do miracles," said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a proje...

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....

The Japanese Garden at Tatton Park is considered 'one of the finest examples of a Japanese garden in Europe'. It was the result of Alan de Tatton E...

Eine ökologische Sanierung nach Passivhaus-Standard benötigt Know-how und Erfahrung. Das Buch ist deshalb als Planungswerkzeug konzipiert, das best...

Neue Werkstoffe und Technologien nehmen in der Architektur und im Design eine bedeutende Rolle ein. Umweltverträgliche Materialien und Produktions...

Der Radverkehr nimmt weltweit eine immer bedeutendere Rolle in der Stadt ein. Gründe hierfür sind: Entlastung des automobilen Straßenverkehrs, Nach...

In Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design, Bill Caplan issues a clarion call for the design/build professions to expand their concept of...

Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conv...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Die Herausforderungen der europäischen Raumentwicklung sind nur in t...

While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the...

How far can we expand the concept of ‘urban nature’? How would it make us feel? And how is it going to transform our cities – and, eventually, ours...

Plants and architecture: two seemingly opposite elements. How can we combine them to plan future cities that are closer to nature? What synergies ...

Landscape architects Topotek 1 work as commuters across different disciplines, landscape-typologies and scales; the office also jaunts into archite...

Entwurfliche Eingriffe in bestehende Bauten stehen immer vor der Frage nach der Gegenwart der Vergangenheit: Wie soll das Alte im Neuen aufscheinen...

This atlas of contemporary landscape architecture in London offers a comprehensive overview of new projects within public space. Over the past year...

Architecture is energy. Lines drawn on paper to represent architectural intentions also imply decades and sometimes centuries of associated energy ...

The "2226" project was completed in 2013 and received an outstanding response from the media. The reason is the clever design of this office buildi...

Liliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings...

Well-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling, and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not...

Well-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling, and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not...