Sustainable Architecture Books

New and Published Books

1. Design Education for a Sustainable Future

   By Rob Fleming

   Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Green Buildings Pay

   Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition

   By Brian Edwards, Emanuele Naboni

   This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Architectural Theories of the Environment

   Posthuman Territory

   Edited by Ariane Lourie Harrison

   As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as the largest environmental force on the planet and suggests that conventional anthropocentric...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Designing To Avoid Disaster

   The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design

   By Thomas Fisher

   Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

   How Design Activism Confronts Growth

   By Ann Thorpe

   The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

   By Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys, Susan Roaf

   The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure

   Paths to the Future

   By Annie Pearce, Yong Han Ahn, HanmiGlobal Co, Ltd

   Construction is one of the biggest industries in the world, providing necessary facilities for human prosperity ranging from the homes in which we live to the highways we drive, the power plants that provide energy for our daily activities, and the very infrastructure on which human society is...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

   By Sumita Sinha

   Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. Past interactions and interventions between developed and developing countries have often been unequal and inappropriate. We...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods

    By Ljubomir Jankovic

    As we increasingly become aware of the causes and consequences of the climate change, there is a sense that we are dealing with an almost impossible problem to solve; that our targets for zero carbon buildings are far in the future; and that our targets are hard to achieve. This book develops a...

    Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge