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Understanding sustainable architecture / Terry Williamson, Anthony Radford, and Helen Bennetts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, T. J. (Terry J.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable architecture.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Spon Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments. Much of the available advice and rhetoric about sustainable architecture begins from positions where important ethical, cultural and conceptual issues are simply assumed. If sustainable architecture is to be a truly meaningful pursuit then it must be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework. This book sets out to provide that framework. Through a series of self-reflective
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Sustainability; Images; Ethics; Objectives; Systems; Green houses; Cohesion; Appendix: A partial checklist for sustainable architecture; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-45559-3
- 1-134-45560-7
- 0-203-29426-2
- 1-280-05673-8
- 0-203-21729-2
- 9780203217290
- OCLC:
- 71826343
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