2nd Edition

Ecominimalism The Antidote to Eco-bling

By Howard Liddell Copyright 2013
128 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Eco-minimalism: the antidote to eco-bling reminds us that to build energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex, comprising a set of interdependent factors influenced by little-understood science. The headline technologies, while legitimate in isolation, become less obvious in practice when context, building use, local climate, geology, economics, and many other... Read more

Biography

Howard Liddell is Director of Gaia Architects and a founding partner of Gaia Planning. His distinguished career has included chairing the RIBA’s environment group, while he holds the first and currently only A* award in sustainable design for his innovative application of sustainable development principles in the built environment.