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The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design
Phillip James Tabb
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Description for The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, Includes 215 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AMCR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 188 x 248 x 12. Weight in Grams: 602.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409447399
SKU
V9781409447399
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Ref
99-1
About Phillip James Tabb
Phillip James Tabb is a Professor in the School of Architecture, Texas A&M University, USA and Dr A. Senem Deviren is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
Reviews for The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design
'As a whole, the book lies somewhere between a textbook and an extended essay on green architecture and provides a general survey of the physical aspects of green and sustainable design ... The most useful contribution of the book is the exposition of the multiple ideas and projects that have inspired and informed green and sustainable design approaches ... By ... Read more