Understanding Sustainable Architecture

by Martin J. Gainsborough, Helen Bennetts, Terry Williamson, et al.

Book Overview

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments.
Much of the available advice and rhetoric about sustainable architecture begins from positions where important ethical, cultural and conceptual issues are simply assumed. If sustainable architecture is to be a truly meaningful pursuit then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415283523
• ISBN13: 9780415283526
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"