Sustainable Design Books
Upcyclist: Reclaimed and Remade Furniture, Lighting and Interiors
Upcycling goes upscale in this beautiful, elegant, and global collection that showcases what today's designers are creating out of yesterday's materials. Upcycling is the process of transforming seemingly low value items into something new. Today's upcyclists are creating stunning furniture, lighting, and art objects that combine values of superb craftsmanship and design with ideas of how "waste" can be both inspiring and informing. While the environmental and financial benefits of upcycling are readily acknowledged in Upcyclist: Reclaimed and Remade Furniture, Lighting and Interiors, the designers and makers profiled show how the practice can result in pieces that are as aesthetically exciting as anything created using only raw materials.
Post-Petroleum Design
Post-Petroleum Design introduces readers to the most current, state-of-the-art, plastic-and petroleum-free products and projects in industrial design, architecture, transportation, electronics, apparel and more. It explores the motivations for reduced-petroleum design as well as sharing extensive case studies, strategies and objectives of leading post-petroleum designers.
Off the Grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life
Off-gridders' homes are, in many cases, experimental labs for our collective future. The lessons they are learning today about living with renewable energy are the lessons we will all need to learn tomorrow in order to make our lives more sustainable, more respectful toward the environment, and less dependent on non-renewable resources. By taking an intimate look into these families and their homes the authors call the rest of us to question our collective, modern, on-grid way of life.
The Environmental Design Pocketbook
The Environmental Design Pocketbook places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools and tips, it cuts through the complex mass of technical data and legislation that faces the designer, and distills all the key guidance into a single reference that is quick, easy to use and points to the facts, figures and performance data that are most important.
Sustainable Building Systems and Construction for Designers
As a practicing architect and an interior designer, author Lisa M. Tucker covers all systems including structural, mechanical, electrical and lighting, plumbing, and interior building systems as they relate to sustainability and interior design. The technical knowledge and vocabulary presented in the text allows interior designers, architects, engineers, and contractors to communicate effectively with each other while collaborating on projects.
Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design
Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design will help you understand the nature of the sustainability problem and show you how to implement your design for a sustainable future. Organized in six parts, the problem, the environment, the residential scale, the commercial scale, the urban scale, and energy sources, the book presents essential information in context, so that you get the full picture.
Sustainable Fashion: New Approaches
Sustainable Fashion: New Approaches aims to provide a source of inspiration for students, designers and companies, and all stakeholders whose interest lies in the area of sustainable fashion. The book presents approaches to fashion that embrace future-oriented value. Several chapters illustrate how effective fashion can be as transformative design or change agent experimentation.
Art Without Waste: 500 Upcycled
Art Without Waste features 500 upcycled and Earth-friendly designs from cutting-edge designers, illustrators and artists around the world. With a broad scope of alternative uses for discarded items, such as bottle caps, gas cans, and skateboards, the designs featured in this book also explore new uses for sustainable resources such as wood, straw, and paper.
Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future
Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley Gordon and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labor practices and the treatment of animals.
Sustainable Residential Interiors
The Second Edition of Sustainable Residential Interiors addresses cutting- edge processes, strategies, and principles as well as details for in-depth product vetting criteria. Award-winning, leading interior designer Annette Stelmack shares her expertise from the perspective of LEED BuildingDesign & Construction projects, healthy interiors, and chemical sensitivities, addressing principles, strategies and solutions for design practitioners.
Building Better: Sustainable Architecture for Family Homes
Building Better showcases single-family homes from around the world that combine ecological responsibility with contemporary design. This book offers an insightful exploration of the latest developments in sustainable design and provides information on details including technical data and architectural blueprints.
Behind the Green Door: A Critical Look at Sustainable Architecture through 600 Objects
Behind the Green Door: A Critical Look at Sustainable Architecture through 600 Objects is a richly illustrated critical portrait of the concrete consequences and paradoxes of sustainability as a dominating paradigm in architecture and urban planning. Drawing on a year-long investigation for the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Rotor presents and contextualizes the 600 objects gathered for its main exhibition including building models, samples, specialized construction tools, campaign posters, and footage of lobbyist gatherings.
Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living
Innovative Houses examines the latest residential design trends that have arisen in response to these challenges. Divided into four broad areas, tightly focused thematic chapters look at twenty discrete topics, such as live/work; adaptable housing; prefabrication; water efficiency; green roofs; innovative landscaping.
Design for Biodiversity
Through written guidance and architectural drawings, this book advises on how to incorporate provision for biodiversity within developments. Design for Biodiversity includes sections on different building-reliant species, general principles for design, ready-made products that be incorporated into designs, and legislation, policy and regulations.
The Selective Environment
The Selective Environment is an approach to environmentally responsive architectural design that seeks to make connections between the technical preoccupations of architectural science, and the necessity, never more urgent than today, to sustain cultural identity at a time of rapid global, technological change.
The Sustainable Asian House
The houses in this book are an exciting representation of the region's reinterpretation of tropical architecture and its growing interest in traditional materials and craftsmanship.
Building for the Future: An Introduction to Passive House
Building for the Future contains essays that reveal the technical and creative secrets of Passive House design, as well as containing case studies of some of the world's best examples of beautiful, technically excellent buildings that still feel great even when the power supply is turned down to almost nothing.
The New Eco-Architecture
The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at twenty-first century environmental needs and priorities.
The Solar House
The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today.
Delivering Sustainable Buildings
Delivering Sustainable Buildings: an industry insider's view offers peer-to-peer insights and advice from a leading practitioner in this field and brings together in one book an overview of the main issues to consider when creating energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.
Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production
Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production is an essential reference for understanding the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes, and product life cycles, and is also a guide on how to select and use them in an intelligent way.
The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice
The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions, whether they are planning new construction or want to find out how to 'green' their day-to-day operations.
Green Architecture
The book showcases the latest Chinese achievements in green architecture. Each project has been beautifully photographed and includes detailed plans on eco-technology alongside the architect's thoughts on green architecture in terms of environment protection, energy saving, resource utilisation and pollution control.
100 Contemporary Green Buildings
100 Contemporary Green Buildings brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are present right alongside young, up-and-coming creators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.
The Greenest Home
The Greenest Home showcases eighteen of the world's most attractive Passive Houses by forward-thinking architects such as Bernheimer Architecture, Olson Kundig Architects, and Onion Flats, among many others. Each case study consists of a detailed project description, plans, and photographs.
The World's Greenest Buildings
The World's Greenest Buildings presents an overview of the rating systems and shows "best in class" building performance in North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology
Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology examines, through a range of detailed case studies, how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. These cases are examined from three main perspectives: that of the architect, the client and the user.
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design: Physical Principles, Methods and Applications is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modeling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimized.
Sustainable Design Reader
The Sustainable Design Reader provides a unique and much-needed overview and examination of the discipline, enabling readers to investigate, understand and critique the role of sustainable design and its importance within contemporary-design industry and culture.
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's marketplace.