Sustainable architecture and design Books

Book SynopsisClimate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action. The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for architects and industry professionals to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge to design buildings that deliver holistic sustainable outcomes, meeting the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and mandatory competence in climate literacy. Equipping you with the key information that built environment professionals require to halt climate change and mitigate its impacts in your day-to-day work, this book is organised around six overarching topics: Human Factors Circular Economy Energy and Carbon Water Ecology and Biodiversity Connectivity and Transport Featuring images and original illustrations, each themed section will guide you through fundamental elements and competencies for creating an integrated sustainable design and delivery framework that can be implemented by you in your practice. Contextualising the climate emergency within the built environment landscape, the book maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science, international agreements, legislations, commitments and roadmaps. It explores shared themes of retrofit, disaster risk resilience and climate justice, among others. A collection of short, building- and urban-scale case studies present key takeaways, illustrating real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools, as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world.Table of ContentsAbout the Author Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Global and Built Environment Climate Fundamentals Climate Fundamentals International Legislations, Agreements, Frameworks, Roadmaps and Plans for Action Risks and Opportunities in a Net Zero Economy Sustainable Urbanism, Architecture and Engineering Built Environment Policy, Legislation, Regulations, Commitments, Frameworks, Benchmarks and Construction Industry Guidance 2. Sustainable Outcomes and Common Threads Outcome-based Briefing, Design, Delivery and Management of the Built Environment Retrofit (Adaptation and Reuse) Planning for (Climate) Extremes, Disaster Risk, Resilience/Robustness, Redundancy and Adaptation Climate Justice, Equitable and Inclusive Design Procurement, Process, Life Cycle Costing, Research and Innovation 3. Human Factors Health, Wellbeing and Comfort Biophilic and Sensory Design User Experience Design and Occupant Behaviour Communities, Interconnectivity and Inclusion Social Value 4. Circular Economy Resource Efficiency, Sufficiency and Geographic Implications Designing for Change (Flexibility and Adaptability) and Regeneration Waste as a 'Resource' Environmental and Health Impacts of Materials and Waste Responsible and Ethical Sourcing 5. Energy and Carbon Passive Design Active Design: Environmental Systems and Technologies Whole Life Carbon Impacts (for Retrofit and New Build) Offsetting and Carbon/Offset Credits Iterative and Integrated Design and Delivery Process 6. Water Water Cycles, Sources, Stresses, Quality and Management Water Recycling and Reuse Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management and Sustainable Urban Drainage Water Pollution on Land and in Aquatic Habitats Impacts of Climate Change (Water-related Hazards and Disasters) 7. Ecology and Biodiversity Biodiversity and Net Gain Nature-based Solutions Land Use and Urban Density Bioregional Planning and Biophilic Urbanism Sustainable Food Production and Urban Food Systems 8. Connectivity and Transport Site Selection, Location and Urban Ecosystems Compact Development and Walkability Regional and Local Infrastructure and Planning Low Carbon Transport and Multimodal Transportation Networks Planning for Future of Transportation

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Book SynopsisGiven the ongoing climate and socio-ecological emergencies, it is paramount to support a socially just rethinking of the world we inhabit, which is intrinsically dependent on the health of the earth's systems. This requires a radical transformation of the role of environmental designers in developing propositions, mitigation strategies and advocacy initiatives. This issue ofADexplores the principles behind the Green New Deal and how they apply to the architectural and landscape professions. Whatever form the Green New Deal will take and is taking, it will be materialised through infrastructure, buildings, landscapes and various other constructed forms. The contributors to thisADexamine the theoretical frameworks and design practices within which the protocols of the Green New Deal could be integrated. Initially, such a goal requires a survey of the available design tools and methodologies necessary to achieve a transition to a decarbonised economy in an equitable manner. The articleTable of ContentsAbout the Guest-Editor 5 José Alfredo Ramírez Introduction 6 Designing Landscapes How Policies Shape the World José Alfredo Ramírez Visualising a 12 Transformative Space that Puts People and Climate First Miriam Brett Crises and 20 Contestations The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal Billy Fleming ‘Raising the Stakes 28 for Landscape’ in the Climate Crisis Clara Olóriz Sanjuán Just Transition 36 Rewiring Carbon-Pollutant Landscapes and Labour into a Community Forestry Framework Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera and Yasmina Yehia Dynamic Domains of 44 Antarctica A Design Model of Global Commons in Sync with Planetary Metabolism Daniel Kiss and Swadheet Chaturvedi Take Back the Land 54 Godofredo Enes Pereira, Christina Leigh Geros and Jon Goodbun Making Space for 62 Green Work Julian Siravo Taking Apart 70 Buildings and Systems In Converstaion with Mae Bowley of Re:Purpose Savannah Jane Mah Hutton and Alison Creba The Red Deal 78 Decolonising Climate Action Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió and Danika Cooper Design Perspectives 86 from the Global South The Case of Mexico José Alfredo Ramírez Country-Led 96 Approaches in Land Management and Design Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon Monsoonal Solidarity 104 A Global Approach to Climate Justice Lindsay Bremner Town, Country and Wilderness 112 Planning the Half-Earth Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass and Filip Mesko Towards the Abolition of the Hinterlands 120 Kai Heron and Alex Heffron From Another Perspective 128 A Rapturous Delight in the Natural World Laurie Chetwood Neil Spiller

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Book SynopsisThe making of architectural projects made partly or totally from recycled freight containers is getting more and more common, and added to this, the need for a more sustainable construction is also becoming increasingly necessary. Lots of architects and designers have reinvented the prefabricated house with new materials and construction techniques, which are easy to transport, some even able to be built in a single day in surprising locations. This book includes 16 selected projects, all developed with graphics, exterior and interior images, plans, elevations, sections, construction details and other useful specifications.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration into the work of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, as it tests what is possible with regenerative design and the outcome when sustainability is moved to the top of the list of criteria.

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Book Synopsis‘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 influences come into play. The danger is that buildings are ‘greenwashed’ with eco-bling which is at best unnecessary and at worst counter productive and ecologically damaging. This book exposes the pitfalls of such greenwashing in an immediate, visually-arresting and authoritative way. The quickfire format is based on 30 years of practical experience. Its central message is that eco-bling should be ditched in favour of ‘eco-minimalism’ – the holistic, considered and appropriate deployment of building science in support of truly ecological, affordable sustainable architecture for everyone. The book is based on original experience and research from an architect at the vanguard of ‘green’ architecture. A critique of the technical fix approach is counterbalanced with the good housekeeping and frequently counter-intuitive eco-minimal alternative aimed at aspirant green architects, other construction professionals, developers, and owners for projects at all scales. A concluding chapter examines costs, demonstrating that eco-minimalism represents not just good green value for money but, quite simply, good value for money.

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Book SynopsisWater plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of ‘designing for water,’ using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely.Table of Contents1 The Draw of Water 2 Integrated Design with Water (The LifE Approach) 3 Waterspace Planning 4 Neighbourhood scale - ZAC Seine Gare Vitry, Paris 5 Aquatecture 6 Building scale - The Amphibious House, Thames London 7 Water Landscapes 8 Regional scale - Room for the River, Nijmegen Peninsula 9 Water Infrastructure 10 City scale - City of the Future, Shanghai

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Book SynopsisThis book presents 25 inspirational housing schemes providing hope for the future of home building in Britain. Highlighting the need for the UK to reclaim its sense of local identity through the vernacular, these case studies are not just examples of good design but demonstrate the achievable nature of contemporary vernacular in today's society.Generating a sense of place, community and regional identity, these schemes are also affordable and highly energy efficient. Through site visits and interviews with both architects and residents, each case study explores how the schemes were delivered, how they have been received by the community, and how passive principles of vernacular design were applied to create true sustainability.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: View on the Vernacular · Housing: The British View · What is Contemporary Vernacular Design? · Contemporary Vernacular Design Qualities Part 2: UK Case Studies · Plockton, Scottish Highlands · Derwenthorpe, York · New Islington, Manchester · Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk · Fulmodeston and Barney, Norfolk · Clay Fields, Elmswell, Suffolk · The Triangle, Swindon · Great House Farm, St Fagans, Wales · Courtyard Housing, Barking, London · Osprey Quay, Portland Part 3: European Case Studies · Vetlanda, Sweden · Biesland, Holland · Eden Bio, Paris · Vorarlberg, Austria Part 4: ROW Case Studies • Santiago, Chile • Centro Lak’a Uta, Bolivia • New generation cave dwellings, Yan’an, China (or Zaoyuan village, Yan’an, China) • Four Horizons House and Lodges, Australia • Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea Part 5: Co-housing · Sieben Linden, Germany · Springhill Co-Housing, Stroud · LILAC, Leeds · Lancaster Co-Housing, Halton · Ashley Vale, Bristol · Copper Lane, London Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDespite an increasing demand for energy-efficient design, it is generally accepted that architects rarely return to their creations to ensure that they are performing as intended: to talk to users, observe how the buildings work and have been adapted, and whether the environments created are enjoyable places to be in. While most building professionals recognise the value of follow-through and involvement after handover, there are many perceived barriers to undertaking this work in practice. This book provides a bold vision for how some of these perceived barriers can be overcome. Better Buildings provides architects with the inspiration and tools they need to deliver truly sustainable design. Through essays and illustrated case studies, this essential book explores how sustainable buildings are occupied and work and sheds light on the methods used to observe this. It illustrates that in observing building performance in-use, sustainable architecture has moved beyond simply creating beautiful spaces, to deliver on the low-energy performances promised. Table of ContentsIntroductionEssays:1. Building Performance Evaluation? - Richard Partington2. Learning from the Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluation Programme - Tom Kordel3. Low energy buildings: Delivering theory in practice - Bill Gething4. Designing low energy buildings - Simon Bradbury5. Learning through practice - Mark Lumley6. Sustainable buildings a design challenge - Judit Kimpian7. Energy performance - Bill BordassCase Studies:Introduction to the case studies1. Woodlands Trust2. Greenfields Office3. John Hope Gateway4. Crawley library5. St Lukes School6. Wilkinson School7. WWF Headquarters8. One Brighton9. Derwenthorpe10.Lancaster co-housingConclusion

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Book SynopsisEnergy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used in buildings, and how to drive down operational energy use – whether you’re an architect, student, client, building services engineer, contractor, building operator or other stakeholder. Focusing on evidence from feedback on buildings in use, it explains what it takes to get them to perform as expected, as well as the reasons why they often fail. Energy, People, Buildings draws extensively on the findings of studies, UK government-funded building performance evaluations and on original research into seven case studies from across the UK and abroad that have achieved exemplary energy use through building performance feedback. Providing a clear roadmap to understanding aspects that impact building users’ comfort and satisfaction, it also outlines the factors behind energy use and how to track it across the life of a project to ensure that your building performs as intended. Case studies include: the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool; Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, Colorado; and Carrowbreck Meadow, Norwich. Featured architects: AHMM, AHR, Architype, Hamson Barron Smith, Haworth Tompkins, Henning Larsen Architects and ZGF Architects.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the authorsForewordIntroduction Chapter 1 The challengeChapter 2 Design for peopleChapter 3 Energy basics and benchmarksChapter 4 Design for feedbackChapter 5 Building context and configurationChapter 6 Fabric firstChapter 7 Integrating technical systemsChapter 8 Control systems and user experienceChapter 9 Case study 1: Everyman Theatre, UK Case study 2: Morelands rooftop offices, UK Case study 3: Carrowbreck Meadow, UK Case study 4: Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, USA Case study 5: Frederiksbjerg School, Denmark Case study 6: Kenysham Civic Centre, Library & Information Service, UK Case study 7: UEA’s Enterprise Centre, UKChapter 10 Contract for performanceConclusionReferencesGlossaryFurther readingIndexImage credits

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributions from thought leaders in the UK and the rest of the world (USA, China, India, Australia, NZ, Indonesia) with an overarching narrative from Martin Brown. Although progress in sustainable solutions has been made over the past decade, the trend is still one of a woefully wasteful construction industry. This book aims to show that being ‘less bad’ is no longer good enough. The book also spotlights digital sharing and collaboration through social media and BIM as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’ which provide unique and powerful opportunities to rapidly advance sustainability thinking, development and action.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Chapter 1: Looking forward – The challenges and benefits Chapter 2: Healing the future – Restorative solutions through behavioural innovation Chapter 3: Healing The Future – Restorative solutions through technical and material innovation Chapter 4: The new standards Chapter 5: Digital and sharing Chapter 6: Summary, conclusions and reference References Further reading

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Book SynopsisEmbodied and Whole Life Carbon thinking will change the way buildings are designed, yet carbon emissions associated with the construction and life of buildings are not wholly understood by the profession. Energy is assumed to be the province of services engineers, but energy from materials is as big an issue. Architects have the opportunity to take the lead in redefining how buildings are designed to achieve a low carbon future. Targeting Zero is an accessible and friendly read, introducing and explaining many of the concepts around Embodied and Whole Life Carbon, using case studies taken from in-depth research. It will demonstrate how architects can become central to the carbon resource impacts of the buildings they design and how low carbon approaches should drive innovation.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: A Holistic Approach to Low Carbon DesignChapter 2: Recycling, Reuse and the Circular EconomyChapter 3: Low Carbon Design - the Macro ScaleChapter 4: Low Carbon Design - the Human ScaleChapter 5: Measurement

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Book SynopsisAre you making the most of aluminium? Aluminium is one of the most flexible and durable materials to design with. With exceptional strength, durability and affordability, it provides us with more than simply the ability to select products. When understood properly, aluminium becomes something to design with. In a world where over half humankind now lives in cities there is a need to design zero carbon, attractive and durable architecture. This can only be achieved if we are more resourceful, if we achieve more with less by understanding materials well, using finite element analysis and computer aided design. Aluminium can be part of that route to affordable and durable architecture. Recycling aluminium takes only 5% of the energy required to produce primary aluminium and it can be recycled almost infinitely without any loss of properties. Combining an inspirational overview of the use of aluminium in architecture and infrastructure with a technical level of detail, this book shows how useful and versatile aluminium is – and how architects can actually design with it. This book provides access to state of the art research into the best practice in application of aluminium to architecture: from curtain walling and cladding roofing to structural considerations. It demonstrates the material’s design flexibility and how it works well with other materials. Each process will be accompanied by exemplar case studies that demonstrate the potential and application. Woven into the structure of the book are the primary benefits of aluminium: its flexiblilty, its durability, its sustainable properties and its cost-effectiveness. Whether you’re a first year student or a seasoned designer or engineer, this book provides an accessible and deep dive into the uses and benefits of aluminium.Table of ContentsAbout the Author Dedication Introduction Chapter 1 Light metal Chapter 2 Aluminium pioneers Chapter 3 Flexible: Fabrication processes Chapter 4 Durability and finishes Chapter 5 Light and strong Chapter 6 Performative façades Chapter 7 Economical, powerful and sympathetic Chapter 8 Sustainability Index Image credits

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Book SynopsisHistoric buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK, their cultural identity and the economy. They can inspire creativity and enterprise, bring communities together, and make people happier about where they live. This book explores how historic buildings across the UK have been brought back to life through the technical and enabling skills, creativity and sensitivity of architects. Exemplar projects explored through richly illustrated case studies demonstrate the value to society of re-using historic buildings, and will inspire a new generation of architects to get involved with community heritage projects at a time of great opportunity. Drawing on interviews with architects and their community clients, this book explores the challenges that they face, how they are overcome, and the benefits that follow. Exemplar projects across the UK demonstrate what can be achieved through the creative use of heritage architecture, and provide inspiration for those interested in taking over the ownership of a historic building or adapting one for new uses Shows how complex projects can benefit from collaboration between communities, statutory bodies and architects Celebrates the creativity of architects, their ability to add value, and the role they can play in shaping both our built environment and cultural identity Puts forward a powerful argument for the benefits to society of re-using historic buildings Table of ContentsForeword Preface: 99% of historic buildings are not redundant artefacts Chapter 1 Replace or recycle? Chapter 2 Downsize Chapter 3 Live Chapter 4 Work Chapter 5 Shop Chapter 6 Play Chapter 7 LearnChapter 8 Visit Chapter 9 Integrate Conclusion: constructing our future from our past.

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Book SynopsisHousing Fit for Purpose sets out a research-focused approach to looking at the challenges facing the built environment in approaching the design, construction and management of housing. This book uses original research by the author on housing performance evaluation and distils it for built environment professionals, arguing that learning from feedback should be taking place at every stage of the housing project lifecycle, improving outcomes for end users. Drawing on active research, this book shows why and how the design, construction and management of housing can be linked to feedback and actual evidence of how people choose, and learn, to use their homes. It examines the key concepts which underlie participatory design, occupancy feedback and learning, and includes a practical primer on how to undertake housing occupancy feedback. Table of ContentsAbout the Author Acknowledgements Foreword Ben Derbyshire TBC Introduction PART 1: BACKGROUND Chapter 1 – A short history of housing evaluation Chapter 2 – Drivers for building performance and occupant feedback PART 2: LEARNING FROM FEEDBACK Chapter 3 – Developing physical theory for feedback Chapter 4 – Developing socio-cultural theory for feedback Chapter 5 - Modelling and Reality Chapter 6 – Longitudinal feedback and design iteration PART 3: TRAINING FOR FEEDBACK Chapter 7 – Feedback Techniques Chapter 8 - Innovation in occupancy feedback Chapter 9 – Educating for feedback and learning PART 4: APPLICATION AND CASE STUDIES Chapter 10 – The international context Chapter 11 – The UK context Chapter 12- The cost and benefits of feedback PART 5: CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE Chapter 13- The ethics of feedback Chapter 14- Effective feedback loops Chapter 15 – Next steps Primer – How to do housing BPE

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Book SynopsisIf you’ve ever wondered how leading architectural firms successfully embed energy modelling into their practices, this book is for you. Featuring expert contributions from leading architects and practices, this book illustrates architects’ approaches to learning, sharing and integrating energy modelling across a range of design projects, in both small and large firms in the UK and internationally. Discussing the practical and business implications of embedding energy modelling in practice, this practical guide is an essential manual for the energy-literate architect. Includes case study examples from award-winning architecture firms of how to implement energy modelling in different organizational structures Shows innovative ways of organising and managing design projects to achieve an integrated outcome Presents a first-of-its-kind approach to discussing energy modelling from an organizational rather than a technical perspective Features insights from a range of practice sizes, including AHMM, Architype, bere:architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Henning Larsen, HOK, Kieran Timberlake, Prewett Bizley and Tonkin Liu Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Organizational responses to energy analysis /modelling in architecture  Energy analysis in architecture – whose role is it anyway?  Energy analysis and literacy- components  Focus on techniques, software and expertise-insights from research Chapter 2 Small firms: Energy modelling- The story, data and detail  bere:architects - learning from POE: the data and the detail  Prewett Bizley – testing and trialling PHPP  Tonkin Liu – resource efficiencies and gains Chapter 3 Medium firms: The process, parts and possibilities Architype – developing a culture Henning Larsen – discovery and experimentation  Kieran Timberlake – relationships across and between Chapter 4 Large firms: The teams, people and rules  AHMM- snowballing from big to small  Feilden Clegg Bradley – the individual and the team  HOK - Leaders and leadership toolkits Recommendations and conclusion References

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Book SynopsisIn his seminal new book, Bill Dunster demonstrates that zero-carbon, zero-waste design doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag, and is achievable today. This book presents a range of tools that form key ingredients in a low carbon society. Focusing on technologies that are already in use, ZEDlife explores both small-scale ideas (such as shelters and lighting) and large-scale solutions in buildings and across cities. An essential resource for both students and practitioners, ZEDlife offers an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, making connections to a web of technologies through full-colour case studies of new build and retrofit projects from across the globe. The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier. This book offers a forceful challenge to the status quo and provides workable, sustainable solutions for zero-carbon, zero-waste design.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction A Beginner’s Guide to ZEDlifeThe ZEDlife: A call to engage Part II: The ZEDlife Tools The ZEDroofSolar-charged exchangeable batteriesLow carbon transport: The ZEDbike, electric vehicles and the filling stations of the futureBuilding-level energy systems: Air sourced head pumps and solar assisted heating and coolingDistrict-level energy systems and food productionRetrofit of existing buildingsRainwater harvesting and water re-useTool combinations Part III: The ZEDlife in practice The Zero-bills homeZEDpodsShoreham Cement Works Holiday ParkRehousing Somalia’s IDPs: From emergency housing to a long-term urban solutionAfricaZEDShanghai Expo ZED PavillionHigher density strategies: living under a parkOne Planet Business CentreJingdezhen Ceramic Centre and the urban solar farmBedZED Conclusions

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Book SynopsisWithout environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their interdependence, the treatment of these afflictions remains disconnected. What follows is policy and design decisions that fail to tackle the problems collectively. Exposing the narrow perspectives that dominate architectural discourse and practice, this volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An respected group of international voices amplifies interactions relating to sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they are inextricably linked. Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Or be able to experience an architecture that addresses the effects of the human-centred Anthropocene age. Readers are invited to imagine, rage, rail, protest, contest, channel, dream and envision from a position of humility, equity, and in some instances, experiential fury. The future of architecture is contingent on working at the intersection. Features: Marcos Cruz, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Antón García-Abril, Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Kerry Holden, Walter Hood, Joyce Hwang, Kabage Karanja, V. Mitch McEwen, Débora Mesa, Timothy Morton, Stella Mutegi, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Steel, McKenzie Wark, Kathryn Yusoff and Joanna Zylinska.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction: Beyond the Spaces of Speciesism An Architectural History of Intersectionality by V. Mitch McEwen Architecture is Dysphoric and Wants to Transition by McKenzie Wark Non-Binary Ecologies by Harriet Harriss & Naomi House Loser Images: A Feminist Proposal for Post-Anthropocene Visuality by Joanna Zylinska Planetary Portals in the Upside-Down World by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Kathryn Yusoff From Anthropocene to Biocene: Novel Bio-integrated Designs as a Means to Respond to the Current Biodiversity and Climate Crisis by Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker Sitopia: A Landscape for Human and Non-Human Flourishing by Carolyn Steel The Anthropocene Museum: A Troublesome Trail of Improvision Towards the Chthulucene by Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi Ca’n Terra: For Landscapes of the Post-Anthropocene by Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa Pollinators Pavilion: The Architecture of Analogous Habitats by Ariane Lourie Harrison The Wilding of Mars by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg Bat Cloud by Joyce Hwang In Between Landscape – Nvidia Headquarters by Walter Hood Final Word by Timothy Morton

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Book SynopsisBuilt in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson for Alexander Green and his family, as well as its inhabitants over the decades. Also known as Gyppeswyk, after the village in England where Green wed Theophila Rainer, the house is more commonly referred to as the Spencer Mansion, after later owners David and Emma Spencer. The book also chronicles the brief period when the residence served as BC''s Government House and concludes with the story of how the house came to function as an art gallery.A unique book, The Spencer Mansion showcases a true gem of Victoria''s architecture and history.

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.

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Book SynopsisPrefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban land­scapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and ­structural possibilities. Modern methods of constructing and assembling prefabricated buildings – methods that can be traced back to the 19th century – are going through a renaissance. This is true across the world, from Vancouver and New York to London and Berlin through to Astana and Singapore. Moreover, prefabrication now serves a wider range of purposes than ever before. In ­Moscow, Europe’s largest metropolitan area, it is primarily used ­­­­as a means to provide ­affordable homes. But in some countries, prefabrication is surprisingly also used to build exclusive, upmarket properties. This construction and design manual presents a range of ­different production and assembly methods currently used in the field of prefabricated housing. It particularly focuses on ­efficiency, sustainability, and market relevance, and presents strategies for ­organising processes along with best-practice examples that reflect the latest trends. The manual also ex­plores the historical development of prefabricated housing in order to discover its full architectural potential. Finally, it outlines ten design parameters for prefabricated housing and presents 15 noteworthy examples, making a fresh contribution to the debate on affordable housing today.

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Book SynopsisImportant examples of realised objects show the interplay of use of nature resources, and the building technology that is added on. Natural ventilation, passive and active use of solar energy, use of rainwater and the energy potential of the soil are key issues. The use of photothermic and photoelectric solar technologies is presented in detail, along with use of the potential for drawing energy from the soil.Table of ContentsPoint of Departure; Man and Comfort; Natural Energy Sources; Traditional Buildings in Climatic Regions; Natural Ventilation; Quality Improvement with Plants; Urban Space, Building Orientation and Design; Building Structures; Windows and Glass Façades; Solar Technology, Solar Systems, Alternative Systems; Examples of Sustainable Buildings.

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Book SynopsisText in English & Portuguese. In November 2010, the NATO Summit held in Lisbon dominated the political news of the world''s media for 24 hours. In only three weeks Risco and P-06 Atelier created an ephemeral summit installation in the pavilions of Lisbon''s exhibition centre, which was designed not only to meet the strict requirements for an event of this scale but also to set standards in terms of sustainability and communication design. The spaces that were created provided the framework not only for a political but also for a media event. Each chapter of the book focuses on a special topic related to the project, from architecture and construction to media exposure. In addition, the book contains contributions from authors involved in the project as well as complementary images and drawings. The photographs by Fernando Guerra were taken before and during the event especially for this book. Risco is an architecture and urban design firm based in Lisbon. The firm has produced more than 200 projects over the last twenty years, covering many fields of activity. Among them are the Centro Cultural de Belém (in association with Vittorio Gregotti), the Expo 98 public spaces and the Hospital da Luz in Lisbon, the Antas Urban Project and the Estádio do Dragão in Oporto, and the new cruise ship terminal in Ponta Delgada, Azores. P-06 Atelier is an environment and communication design firm in Lisbon. The projects produced by the atelier include the Museu do Oriente, the Théâtre et Auditorium de Poitiers, France, and, more recently, the foyer of the Pavilion of Knowledge -- Ciência Viva in Lisbon.

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