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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture

Author : Sergi Costa Duran
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006200462X
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture written by Sergi Costa Duran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, drawings, floor and aerial plans, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture features today's most noteworthy environmentally-friendly architectural projects. Comprehensive chapters account for the core concerns of all architectural projects (the needs of architects, clients and partners, as well as logistical area and cost management concerns, and energy management), while allowing readers a hands-on understanding of what it takes to envision, create, and develop an environmentally-conscious master plan, building, or landscape design. Featured projects exhibit a range of sustainable design ideas from bioclimatic strategies to more complex off-the-grid constructions that include passive designs, prefab systems, water-harvesting mechanisms, and green renovations. Projects include building eco-certifications and eco-design solutions to utilize advanced technologies, and both "cost management plans" as well as plans geared toward more lax budgets are featured. All projects included in The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture have been completed or are ongoing in the 21st century and were chosen as highly successful examples of green architects meeting the individual needs and tastes of their clients. It is the perfect resource for architects, city-planners, engineers, and designers to find the knowledge and inspiration to carry us into a "green" architectural future.

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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture

Author : Àlex Sánchez Vidiella
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062083694
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture written by Àlex Sánchez Vidiella and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abriged paperback edition of The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture presents sixty noteworthy case studies that showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide--now in a more portable format. The case studies incorporate every type of architectural project possible-private, commercial and public-making this lushly illustrated, information-rich book a more widely accessible resource that architects and architectural students will turn to again and again. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions. Every case study also features numerous full-color photographs and detailed renderings of site and floor plans. Finally, each case study provides a full listing of those involved in the project: the architectural firm and its participating architects; engineers; consultants; and contractors. The book features the work of world-renowned architects such as Gehry Partners, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, Daniele Claudio Taddei, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Philippe Starck, Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates, Daniel Claudio Taddei, Diller Scofidio, and others. Well-known projects include New York’s Modern Museum of Art redesign and Time Warner Center, England’s Selfridges Birmingham, and the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. This incredible volume is organized into the following categories: Public buildings: Offices, banks, corporate buildings, convention and exhibition centers, research centers, factories, skyscrapers Urban planning and transportation: Airports, train stations, urban transportation centers, bridges, communications towers, urban parks, peripheral parks, urban monuments and land art Cultural facilities: Museums, art galleries, cultural centers and foundations, schools and universities, libraries, houses of worship Public buildings: Auditoriums; theaters and cinemas; sports facilities; theme parks and attractions; bars, clubs, and game rooms; shopping malls; stores and showrooms; and restaurants Private homes: Multifamily urban homes, multifamily suburban homes, hotels and residences, semidetached and row houses, single family suburban homes, single family country homes, single family seaside homes. Future architecture: Art galleries, theaters and cinemas, and others.

Vitamin Green

Author : Joshua Bolchover
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714862293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Vitamin Green written by Joshua Bolchover and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century. Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales, from eyeglasses to landscapes and from motorcycles to skyscrapers. The result is an inspirational survey of the enormous amount of innovative work being done in this field, as well as a directory of products, ideas and techniques for both designers and consumers. Filled with projects that are built and in production, Vitamin Green provides a lively and inspiring visual definition of the term 'sustainable design', showing people what really can be achieved today.

The Greening of Architecture

Author : Phillip James Tabb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351888617
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Greening of Architecture written by Phillip James Tabb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century. This text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural and climatic contexts. The book is divided into seven chapters: with an overview of the environmental issues and the nature of green architecture in response to them, followed by an historic perspective of the pioneering evolution of green technology and architectural integration over the past five decades, and finally, providing the intransigent and culturally pervasive current examples within a wide range of geographic territories. The greening of architecture is seen as an evolutionary process that is informed by significant world events, climate change, environmental theories, movements in architecture, technological innovations, and seminal works in architecture and planning throughout each decade over the past fifty years. This time period is bounded on one end by the awareness of environmental problems beginning in the 1960's, the influential texts by Rachel Carson, E.F. Schumacher, Buckminster Fuller and Steward Brand, and the impact of the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973, and on the other end the pervasiveness of the necessary greening of architecture that includes, systemic reforms in architectural and urban design, land use planning, transportation, agriculture, and energy production found in the 2000's. The greening process moves from remediation to holistic models of architecture. Geographical landscapes give a global account of the greening process where some examples are parallel and sympathetic, and others are in clear contrast to one another with very individuated approaches. Certain events, like the Rio Summit in 1992 and Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and themes, such as the Hannover Principles in 2000, provide a dynamic ideological critique as well as a formal and technical discussion of the embodied and accumulative content of greening principles in architecture.

Green Building

Author : Michael Bauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642006353
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Green Building written by Michael Bauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent. This book has been written to assist with clarifying target criteria and expanding horizons when it comes to ecological buildings. It is meant as a handbook and source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators, to provide them with pertinent information about their design, construction and operation: how to do this in the most energy-efficient and economical manner? Also, there is feedback and documentation about prominent buildings like the Hamburg Dockland or the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. They provide excellent architectural examples for detailed construction and design solutions. Further, there are insightful interviews with architects and clients about many important buildings, which help turn this book into an integrated source of reference for sustainable architecture. - A Guideline for Planning, Construction and Operation of sustainable Buildings - A source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators - Innovative architectural examples with sustainable concepts and design

Sourcebook of Contemporary Urban Design

Author : Francesc Zamora Mola
Publisher : Harper Design
ISBN 13 : 9780062113580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook of Contemporary Urban Design written by Francesc Zamora Mola and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourcebook of Contemporary Urban Design presents more than 300 noteworthy case studies in its 600 pages, the first large-scale book of its kind to showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide. The case studies incorporate many types of urban space projects, indoor and outdoor, making this lushly illustrated, information-rich book an invaluable resource that architects and architectural students will turn to again and again. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions. Every case study also features numerous full-color photographs and detailed renderings of site and floor plans. Finally, each case study provides a full listing of those involved in the project: the design firm and its participating architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors.

Sustainable Building Design

Author : Vidar Lerum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317566440
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Building Design written by Vidar Lerum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture. After a century of building designs characterized by high energy demand, low quality lighting and poor thermal comfort, the fundamental questions must be asked again: is there a better path to designing the most energy efficient, comfortable, functional and beautiful buildings for a sustainable future? While seeking solutions for the future, are there lessons to be learned from the best buildings of the past? Sustainable Building Design explores outstanding buildings and building designs of the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the artistry of masters of architecture who came before. By dissecting and analyzing great public buildings of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, materials, techniques, and methods are discovered. This book presents the reader with clues and suggestions that will reveal the secrets of these buildings and by doing so provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how these architectural masterpieces work. Using photographs, drawings, sections, plans and diagrams which are painstakingly redrawn for consistency and clarity based on a wide range of documentation, Vidar Lerum compares works of architecture from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is presented with a careful analysis of each building, providing a compelling sourcebook of ideas for students and professional architects alike.

Eco

Author : Elizabeth Wilhide
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844001088
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Eco written by Elizabeth Wilhide and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how every individual can make a difference to the health of our planet by incorporating environmentally friendly design, decoration and strategies for living, in their home. It provides the most up-to-date information on eco sound materials, technology and products.

Structure As Architecture

Author : Andrew Charleson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136361391
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Structure As Architecture written by Andrew Charleson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia are interspersed throughout the book. The author has visited and photographed each of these examples and analyzed them to show how structure plays a significant architectural role, as well as bearing loads. This is a highly illustrated sourcebook, providing a new insight into the role of structure, and discussing the point where the technical and the aesthetic meet to create the discipline of ‘architecture’.

Green Architecture

Author : Weiju Yang
Publisher : Design Media Publishing (Uk) Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789881566294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Green Architecture written by Weiju Yang and published by Design Media Publishing (Uk) Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of modern technology has brought us a convenient life, but also an unprecedented crisis and test for the human living environment. Green architecture helps promote energy savings and emission reduction, and thus plays a significant role in sustainable social development. The book presents the latest green architecture in China. Through these twenty-two projects, we can see the Chinese architects' understanding and exploration of contemporary green architecture. Besides abundant pictures, detailed drawings on ecotechnologies are included to illustrate their application in architecture. In addition, the architects talk about their thinking on green architecture, in terms of enviornmental protection, energy savings, resource utilization, pollution control, and so on.

Eco House

Author : Sergi Costa Duran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554077823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Eco House written by Sergi Costa Duran and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive resource on ecological health in the home and how to achieve it.

Green Building Illustrated

Author : Francis D. K. Ching
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118878612
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Green Building Illustrated written by Francis D. K. Ching and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Green Building Illustrated is a must-read for students and professionals in the building industry. The combination of incredibly expressive illustrations and accessible technical writing make concepts of green building on paper as intuitive as they would be if you toured a space with experts in sustainable building.” —Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO, and Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council “The authors of Green Building Illustrated deliver clear and intelligent text, augmented by straightforward but compelling illustrations describing green building basics. This comprehensive book covers everything from the definition of green building, to details of high performance design, to sensible applications of renewable energy. This is a book with appeal for all architects and designers, because it addresses general principles such as holistic and integrated design, along with practical realities like affordability and energy codes. Green Building Illustrated describes a pathway for reaching Architecture 2030’s carbon emission reduction targets for the built environment.”—Ed Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030 “...a neophyte will have a very good overview of all the factors involved in green building. I see some excellent pedagogy at work!” — Jim Gunshinan, Editor, Home Energy Magazine Francis D.K. Ching brings his signature graphic style to the topic of sustainable design In the tradition of the classic Building Construction Illustrated, Francis D.K. Ching and Ian M. Shapiro offer a graphical presentation to the theory, practices, and complexities of sustainable design using an approach that proceeds methodically. From the outside to the inside of a building, they cover all aspects of sustainability, providing a framework and detailed strategies to design buildings that are substantively green. The book begins with an explanation of why we need to build green, the theories behind it and current rating systems before moving on to a comprehensive discussion of vital topics. These topics include site selection, passive design using building shape, water conservation, ventilation and air quality, heating and cooling, minimum-impact materials, and much more. Explains the fundamental issues of sustainable design and construction in a beautifully illustrated format Illustrated by legendary author, architect, and draftsman Francis D.K. Ching, with text by recognized engineer and researcher Ian M. Shapiro Ideal for architects, engineers, and builders, as well as students in these fields Sure to be the standard reference on the subject for students, professionals, and anyone interested in sustainable design and construction of buildings, Green Building Illustrated is an informative, practical, and graphically beautiful resource.

Big and Green

Author : David Gissen
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983615
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Big and Green written by David Gissen and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after its inception, the skyscraper has finally come of age. Though it has long been lampooned as a venal and inhospitable guzzler of resources, a revolutionary new school of skyscraper design has refashioned the idiom with buildings that are sensitive to their environments, benevolent to their occupants, and economically viable to build and maintain. Designed by some of the best-known architects in the world, these towers are as daring aesthetically as they are innovative environmentally. Big and Green is the first book to examine the sustainable skyscraper, its history, the technologies that make it possible, and its role in the future of urban development. The book examines more than 40 of the most important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion from Expo 2000 in Hanover-with project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings. Interviews with such leaders in the field as Sir Richard Rogers, William McDonough, and Kenneth Yeang are also included.

Urban Green

Author : Neil B. Chambers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230337414
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Urban Green written by Neil B. Chambers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates looking to nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clean water at up to 5 liters an hour; beavers that reshape their environments while simultaneously enriching ecosystems; and mountains that offer a new way of imagining how a city could be built. By designing our homes and cities in harmony with the natural world, we can take the next step in the sustainable revolution.

Ten Shades of Green

Author : Peter Buchanan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393731897
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Ten Shades of Green written by Peter Buchanan and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of ten buildings illustrates how environmental responsibility is enabling new innovations in contemporary architecture, in a companion to a major traveling exhibition that features the works of such innovators as Norman Foster, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, and Herzog + Partner. Original.

Living Modern Tropical

Author : Phyllis Richardson
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500516409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Living Modern Tropical written by Phyllis Richardson and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful resource influenced by life in the tropics that applies modern concerns— balance, proportion, space, and light—to a variety of settings and environments Published in 2010, Living Modern is the ultimate resource for contemporary living. Defining the “modern” space as much more than “modernist,” the book showcases global interiors with clean lines, sophisticated color combinations, outdoor rooms, great design objects, and open areas for relaxing and eating. Now, with a new selection of photography and houses, Living Modern Tropical applies these attributes to tropical climates, where the expression of modern living has found its natural home. The book is organized into ten sections: nature, architecture, outdoors, elements, function, light, furniture, details, materials, and water. Each features themed subsections that focus on the attributes most enjoyed in tropical spaces. But regardless of where you live, here are hundreds of design ideas that will provide inspiration for every room in the house.