Sustainability and Architecture

This book features a collection of recent projects and classic architectural designs by Mario Cucinella Architects, a world leading firm in sustainable approaches to architecture. This book includes analysis showing how historic buildings considered resources like wind, sun, rain, and local materials, in their design, preceding todays sustainable strategies. Featured projects are accompanied by illustrations and drawings, and in-depth analysis of construction.

This book describes how to reduce building-related greenhouse gas emissions through climate-responsive design. It presents strategies to achieve CO2 reductions, with an emphasis on control of energy flows through the building envelope and passive heating and cooling strategies. This new, revised edition is updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on building simulations.

Dense + Green explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings. The book describes green strategies in a comparison across different design tasks and climate conditions. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types, consistently presented with analytical drawings made exclusively for this book, are complemented by expert essays that demonstrate the current paradigm shift in the sustainable urban environment.

Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they've played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. Lush large-scale photos as well as copious detail shots are accompanied by diagrams of sustainable features such as active and passive cooling and heating systems.

Hand built houses across the world. Exhaustive and exciting look at contemporary vernacular architecture, including mobile homes, cabins, tree houses, houses, earth homes.

This book explores projects from 18 countries including Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, Kenya, Iran, Iraq, India, and Indonesia that have implemented a soft-infrastructure design.

A comprehensive guide to the examples of environmentally-friendly architecture. Showcases projects from prefab houses to public works and beyond.

The author of this book aims to encourage an awareness of sustainability as it is implemented at different stages of the planning and design processes. This book will explores sustainable strategies in 333 show-cased projects in context with traditional cultures and historical experiences, pointing out issues in sustainability and how they were addressed.