Buildings, Culture and Environment: Informing Local and Global Practices

by Ray Cole and Richard Lorch

With accelerating change towards globalisation, the efficacy of design solutions not embedded within regional culture has been prone to failure - technically, socially and economically. Environmental problems and questions surrounding how to achieve a sustainable built environment are now posing urgent challenges to built environment practitioners and researcher. However, international cooperation in setting targets and standards as well as an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405100044
• ISBN13: 9781405100045
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.8"