Rough Guide to Sustainability - Couverture souple

Edwards, Brian

 
9781859463321: Rough Guide to Sustainability
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1859463320 ISBN 13 : 9781859463321
Editeur : RIBA Enterprises, 2009

Synopsis

The comprehensively updated and expanded new edition of this no-nonsense student and practice primer equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability. Brian Edwards' book pulls together many of the disparate, complex strands of sustainability into one simple reference source. It sets out the environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainable principles, as well as outlining the science, measures and design solutions that designers need to adopt. The third edition includes updated design advice on offices, schools, housing and urban design, provides a useful history of green architecture education and presents a guide to the international conventions and agreements from the Rio Summit to Kyoto and the more recent UN Climate Change conference held in Poznan in 2008. It also includes new material prepared in anticipation of fresh international agreements at the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming held in 2009. Stunningly redesigned and extensively illustrated throughout, "Rough Guide to Sustainability" will appeal to design and built environment students and professionals, and anyone keen to cut through to the avalanche of facts and myths about sustainability.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The comprehensively updated and expanded new edition of this no-nonsense student and practice primer equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability. Brian Edwards' book pulls together many of the disparate, complex strands of sustainability into one simple reference source. It sets out the environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainable principles, as well as outlining the science, measures and design solutions that designers need to adopt. The third edition includes updated design advice on offices, schools, housing and urban design, provides a useful history of green architecture education and presents a guide to the international conventions and agreements from the Rio Summit to Kyoto and the more recent UN Climate Change conference held in Poznan in 2008. It also includes new material prepared in anticipation of fresh international agreements at the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming held in 2009. Stunningly redesigned and extensively illustrated throughout, 'Rough Guide to Sustainability' will appeal to design and built environment students and professionals, and anyone keen to cut through to the avalanche of facts and myths about sustainability.

Biographie de l'auteur

Brian Edwards is currently Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture. He is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable architecture and has held numerous positions of responsibility within this field, including sustainability advisor to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2000-2002.

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Éditeur
RIBA Enterprises
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1859463320
ISBN 13 
9781859463321
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1849711976 ISBN 13 :  9781849711975
Editeur : Earthscan Ltd, 2010
Couverture souple