Sustainable architectures: cultures and natures in Europe and North America

Simon Guy, Steven A. Moore9780415700450, 0415700450, 0415700442, 9780415700443, 020341280X, 9780203412800, 9780203693490

Книга Sustainable Architectures Sustainable Architectures Книги Дизайн Автор: Simon Guy Год издания: 2005 Формат: pdf Издат.:Routledge Страниц: 269 Размер: 3,1 MB ISBN: 0415700450 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathyways to greener buildings design and great diversity in practices of sustainable architecture.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgements……Page 11
Contributors……Page 12
1 Introduction The paradoxes of sustainable architecture……Page 16
2 Hybrid environments The spaces of sustainable design……Page 30
3 Theory practice and proof Learning from buildings that teach……Page 46
4 The social construction of green building codes Competing models by industry government and NGOs……Page 66
5 The politics of design in cities Preconceptions frameworks and trajectories of sustainable building……Page 88
6 Equal couples in equal houses Cultural perspectives on Swedish solar and bio pellet heating design……Page 104
7 Safe houses and green architecture Reflections on the lessons of the chemically sensitive……Page 122
8 Revaluing wood……Page 138
9 Policing sustainability Strategies towards a sustainable architecture in Norway……Page 160
10 Green buildings in Denmark From radical ecology to consumer oriented market approaches……Page 180
11 Leaky walls Challenges to sustainable practices in post disaster communities……Page 200
12 Social research on energy efficient building technologies Towards a sociotechnical integration……Page 216
13 Reflection and engagement Towards pluralist practices of sustainable architecture……Page 236
Bibliography……Page 256
Index……Page 280