Sustainable Architecture

Drawing on research from the UK, US, Europe and Asia the book outlines the problems surrounding energy and architecture and provides the reader with a considered overview of this important topic...

Drawing on research from the UK, US, Europe and Asia the book outlines the problems surrounding energy and architecture and provides the reader with a considered overview of this important topic...

This book explores the architectural implications of systems ecology, which extends the principles of thermodynamics from the nineteenth-century focus on more efficient machinery to the contemporary concern with the resilient self-organization of ecosystems...

Architecture and the Forestry Aesthetic presents forestry as a radical tool for re-imagining architecture and sustainable cities. This book shows you how forestry is a design language, an approach to aesthetics, inspired by permeable floors, protective canopies, connected food chains, and resilient ..

This book explores the notion of climate itself, its relationship with human culture, and its significance to architecture and urbanism by referring to the environmental philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji, a leading thinker of modern Japan...

This book explores the notion of climate itself, its relationship with human culture, and its significance to architecture and urbanism by referring to the environmental philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji, a leading thinker of modern Japan...

This book explores what it means for development activists to practise architecture on a global scale, and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices based on reciprocal working methods. The content is based on real situations – through extended field research and contacts with arch..

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Argues for a change in design education: from an individualistic and competitive model focused on greening to a new approach defined by an integral consciousness..

Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters...

The edited summary of twelve key presentations at an International Design Symposium held at MIT, this book presents an important collection of contriubtions from key designers in the field of environmentally conscious buildings...

The edited summary of twelve key presentations at an International Design Symposium held at MIT, this book presents an important collection of contriubtions from key designers in the field of environmentally conscious buildings...