Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment

by Wayne Forster, Dean Hawkes, Dean Hawkes Ph.D.

Book Overview

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393730921
• ISBN13: 9780393730920
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 11.8"