Electronic Books

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101 rules of thumb for low energy architecture / Huw Heywood

Sets out the essential elements of low-energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. Where ever-changing technology and ...

150 Best New Eco Home Ideas / Francesc Zamora Mola

Features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles. Architects, designers, ...

A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

A beginner's guide to urban design and development : the ABC of quality, sustainable design / Laura B. Alvarez

Provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience ...

Architectural Interior Lighting / Gurkan Ozenen

Essential guide to creating well-lit, visually appealing interior spaces. The book begins with an overview of light and color ...

Architecture and Agriculture : A Rural Design Guide / Dewey Thorbeck

Presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections ...

Bio-based Building Skin

This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ ...

Building Theories : Architecture as the Art of Building / Franca Trubiano

Discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to ...

Building With Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture / Gernot Minke

Offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Building to Suit the Climate: A Handbook / Petra Liedl, Gerhard Hausladen, Michael Saldanha

Serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from ...

City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice / Sascha Roesler

Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce ...

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

Coding, shaping, making : experiments in form and form-making / Haresh Lalvani

Combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future ...

Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings

The book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview ...

Dense + Green : Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture / Thomas Schroepfer

Explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical ...

Design Build with The Scarcity and Creativity Studio / Christian Hermansen Cordua, Solveig Sandness

Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service ...

Design to Value : The architecture of holistic design and creative technology / Mark Bryden, John Dyson, Jaimie Johnston, Martin Wood

Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its ...

Designing sustainable cities / Rob Roggema

Emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism ...

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