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1. Ecohouse

   4th Edition

   By Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas-Rees

   Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy-efficient design...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Around and About Stock Orchard Street

   Edited by Sarah Wigglesworth

   9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and...

   Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge
3. Zero-carbon Homes

   A Road Map

   By Joanna Williams

   Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue. Providing homes that achieve "zero carbon", "carbon neutral", "zero-net energy" or "energy-plus" standard is becoming the goal of more...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Green Studio Handbook

   2nd Edition

   By Alison Kwok, Walter Grondzik

   Learn how to integrate green strategies into your building design. This practical handbook provides an essential introduction to green design strategies – helping you to understand how to save energy, water and material resources. It provides the information required to make judgments about which...

   Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Sustainable Buildings in Practice

   What the Users Think

   By George Baird

   Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants’ needs are not something which should be sensibly...

   Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
6. Designed for Habitat

   Collaborations with Habitat for Humanity

   By David Hinson, Justin Miller

   If you're looking for ways to give back to your community, then this book, the first to profile thirteen projects designed and built by architects and Habitat for Humanity, will help. Detailed plans, sections, and photographs show you how these projects came about, the strategies used by each team...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Architecture and Climate

   An Environmental History of British Architecture 1600–2000

   By Dean Hawkes

   This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Weather Architecture

   By Jonathan Hill

   Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge