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Sustainable Architecture

1. Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture

   Alejandro Bahamón, Maria Camila Sanjinés

   How someone else’s waste can become the next designer’s building material.More

2. Inclusive Housing: A Pattern Book: Design for Diversity and Equality

   Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Edward Steinfeld, Jonathan White

   Why inclusive housing is necessary to achieve important urban goals and describes how to design in a variety of contexts.More

3. Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

   Traci Rose Rider

   Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.More

4. Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design

   Steven L. Cantor, Steven Peck

   A popular design trend, green roofs make private and public buildings inviting and environmentally friendly.More

5. The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City

   Patrick Blanc, Gregory Bruhn, Jean Nouvel, Et Al.

   The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.More

6. Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance

   Dariush Arasteh, John Carmody, Lisa Heschong, Et Al.

   Third Edition

   The third edition of Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance provides updated and expanded information on window properties and technologies, as well as new sections on such key topics as window installation, energy efficiency, and building codes.More

7. Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World

   Peter Buchanan, Kenneth Frampton

   Contemporary buildings, like contemporary forms of urban development, are major contributors to the environmental crisis.More

8. Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings

   Dariush Arasteh, John Carmody, Eleanor S. Lee, Et Al.

   A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders.More

9. Wetland Design: Principles and Practices for Landscape Architects and Land-Use Planners

   Robert L. France

   Wetlands combine the beauty of both aesthetic form and ecological function in a way that few other landforms can match.More

10. Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment

    Wayne Forster, Dean Hawkes

    An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering.More

11. Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction

    Theodore H. Osmundson

    In the first comprehensive study published in English, respected landscape architect Theodore Osmundson provides the practical information professionals need to be able to include well-designed and well-constructed roof gardens in their projects.More