Book Search

1. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture

   Edited by Willi Weber, Simos Yannas

   The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Roof Cooling Techniques

   A Design Handbook

   By Evyatar Erell

   Edited by Simos Yannas, Jose Luis Molina

   Natural heating and cooling of buildings helps to improve energy efficiency in the built environment. This book considers the principles of roof design and specific systems and cooling techniques. The authors explain the fundamental principles of roof cooling and describe in detail the relevant...

   Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge
3. Architecture City Environment

   Proceedings of PLEA 2000, Cambridge, UK 2-5 July 2000

   By Koen Steemers

   Edited by Simos Yannas

   PLEA is a network of individuals sharing expertise in the arts, sciences, planning and design of the built environment. It serves as an international, interdisciplinary forum to promote discourse on environmental quality in architecture and planning. This 17th PLEA international conference...

   Published June 30th 2000 by Routledge
4. Environmentally Friendly Cities

   Proceedings of Plea 1998, Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1998

   By Eduardo Maldonado

   Edited by Simos Yannas

   The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing the impact on the environment of cities and...

   Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge