Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style

ISBN-13: 9780415639309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str.

William W Braham

Opis

Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that 'look' be used to explain or enhance their performance? This book provides architects and architectural theorists with more durable arguments for environmental design decisions, arguments addressing three different scales or aspects of contemporary construction.

Spis treści

Introduction: Architecture and Energy (Again)  Part 1: Energy Systems  1. Architecture, Style, and Power: the Work of Civilization  3. Architecture and Life  4. Energy and the Social Hierarchy of Households (and Buildings)  5. Design in the Light of Dark Energy  Part 2: Building Performance  6. Less is Less: Are Architects Thinking Too Small?  7. Environmental Surfing - Delight and Nature's Renewable Energies  8. Adaptive Architecture  9. Designing for Low-Energy: Seeking Representations of High-Performance Homes in Post-War America  Part 3: Architectural Aspects  10. Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment  11. The Formations of Energy in Architecture  12. Visualizing Renewable Resources

O autorze

William W. Braham is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design.

Daniel Willis is Professor of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University, where he is Interim Director of The Institute for the Arts and Humanities and a founder of the Center for Research on Design and Innovation.