Low-tech, light-tech, high-tech : building in the information age / Klaus Daniels ; English translation by Elizabeth Schwaiger.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Daniels, Klaus.

Contributor:

• Schwaiger, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture and technology.
• Architecture--Technological innovations.
• Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

First corrected reprint.

Other Title:

Building in the information age

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2000]

Summary:

This book looks at the challenges facing architects and urban planners in contemporary society. It analyses current trends, future scenarios and solutions from the past, providing detailed information on what it means to build in a sustainable, ecologically sound way, whilst making full use of the technology which we now have at our fingertips. Previously available as a hardcover but now out of print, it is being reprinted as a special softcover edition.

Notes:

• "Original edition 1998"--Colophon.
• Includes bibliographical references (page 230) and index.

ISBN:

3764363290

OCLC:

46478850