Sustainable Architectures : Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America

ISBN-13: 9780415700450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str.

Simon Guy; Simon Guy; Steven Moore

Opis

Buildings are responsible for 50 per cent of C02O emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so are topics covered in this title.

Recenzje

'This is a treatise by competent and regionally diverse authors which deserves the most careful study.' - Architectural Science Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Paradoxes of Sustainable Architecture  2. Re-Interpreting Green Design: Beyond Performance and Ideology  3. Theory, Practice, and Proof: Learning from 'Buildings that Teach'  4. The Social Construction of 'Green Building' Codes: Competing Models by Industry, Government, and NGOs  5. The Politics of Design in Cities: Preconceptions, Frameworks and Trajectories of Sustainable Building  6. Equal Couples in Equal Houses: Cultural Perspectives on Swedish Solar and Bio-Pellet Heating Design  7. Safe Houses and Green Architecture: Reflections on the Lessons of the Chemically Sensitive  8. Revaluing Wood  9. Policing Sustainability: Strategies Towards a Sustainable Architecture in Norway  10. Green Buildings in Denmark - From Radical Ecology to Consumer-oriented Market Approaches?  11. Leaky Walls: Challenges to Sustainable Practices in Post-Disaster Communities.  12. Social Research on Energy-Efficient Building Technologies: Towards a Sociotechnical Integration  13. Conclusion. Reflections and Engagement: Towards Pluralists Practices of Sustainable Architecture

O autorze

Simon Guy, Steven A. Moore