Sustainable Architecture
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Ecohouse
4th Edition
Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy-efficient design...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual
Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with 30,000 buildings realised to date. Yet, remarkably, until now no book in English has been published which clearly explains how to design and build passivhaus. As a technical reference for architects, engineers and...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Around and About Stock Orchard Street
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 in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and...
Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy
Convergence is based on a seemingly simple and straightforward notion: doing more with less. In our current context of increasing demand for diminishing resources, architects have inevitably begun looking beyond the operation of buildings themselves as the site of sustainability. But how do we...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Architecture and Energy
Performance and Style
Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture and Energy provides architects and architectural theorists with more durable arguments for environmental...
Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
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The Green Studio Handbook
2nd Edition
Learn how to integrate green strategies into your building design. This practical handbook provides an essential introduction to green design strategies – helping you to understand how to save energy, water and material resources. It provides the information required to make judgments about which...
Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Architectural Theories of the Environment
Posthuman Territory
As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as the largest environmental force on the planet and suggests that conventional anthropocentric...
Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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The World's Greenest Buildings
Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design
The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know? Authors Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer examined hundreds of the highest-rated large green buildings from around the world and asked their owners to...
Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Green Buildings Pay
Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainable Buildings in Practice
What the Users Think
Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants’ needs are not something which should be sensibly...
Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Solar Home Design Manual for Cool Climates
If you want an inexpensive, environmentally sound source of energy for your home, you need look no further than the sun. Solar heat is not subject to rate increases, is totally renewable, pollution free and requires little or no technology. It is here for you today, and can easily provide up to 50%...
Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
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The Return of Nature
Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability
Detailed case studies and essays by practitioners, historians, and theorists present multiple viewpoints on the relations between architecture, nature, green design, sustainability, technology, and culture....
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Climate and Architecture
Provides a critical overview of the main climate influences which shape the design of buildings. Written by experts in their field, the book contains the latest research into climatic design supported by case studies and examples drawn from both historic and modernist practice from Europe and...
Published November 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Designed for Habitat
Collaborations with Habitat for Humanity
If you're looking for ways to give back to your community, then this book, the first to profile thirteen projects designed and built by architects and Habitat for Humanity, will help. Detailed plans, sections, and photographs show you how these projects came about, the strategies used by each team...
Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple...
Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Design Education for a Sustainable Future
Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a...
Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Architecture and Climate
An Environmental History of British Architecture 1600–2000
This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental...
Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Architectural Integration and Design of Solar Thermal Systems
Although solar thermal systems are technologically mature and cost effective, they have not yet been sufficiently used in building design to play an adequate role in the reduction of fossil fuel consumption. One main hindrance to adoption is the generally low architectural design quality of the...
Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
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A Green Vitruvius
Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design, 2nd Edition
Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern...
Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Rural Design
A New Design Discipline
Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge