Sustainable Architectures: Cultures and Natures in Europe an

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Simon Guy "Sustainable Architectures: Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America"
Routledge | 2005-02-10 | ISBN: 0415700450 | 269 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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.

This edited book brings together leading researchers from across the
European Union and North America to both illustrate the diversity of
practice and to provide a critical commentary on this key debate. The
reader is provided with an introduction to competing perspectives on
the sustainable architecture debate; international exemplars of
differing practice and an overview of new theoretical and
methodological resources for understanding and meeting the conceptual,
social and technical challenges of sustainable architecture.

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