Libros de Arquitectura e interiorismo 363 resultados

Jean Remy Liliane Voye

Fu-Tung Cheng

Alan Gilbert

Kenneth Frampton

Sir Banister Fletcher

Kate Nesbitt

Leon Krier / Robert Stern

Rocca, Alessandro

Sipes, James L

Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources.Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: without it, life on this planet could not exist. Yet, despite this fact, reckless consumption practices from a growing population are drying up the Earth's already limited water resources. Other factors, such as river and lake contam...

Yudelson, Jerry

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and expanded from the authors previous works, this book is the one resource you need to succeed in the green building marketplace. Wit...

Tumlin, Jeffrey

As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities' economic development, social equity and ecological ...

Cotterell, Janet

A guide for everyone wanting to realise a comfortable, healthy and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs. Whether you are building an extension, retrofitting your house or starting from scratch; are new to low-energy design or already have some experience, this book will help you navigate around the pitfalls and misconceptions. ...

Coyle, Stephen J

Communities face substantial challenges-a changing climate, a housing crisis, the end of cheap oil, shifting demographics and lifestyles, and substantially declining federal, state, and local revenues. ...

Snodgrass, Edmund C

Until now, no book has taken a comprehensive look at how to effectively adapt green-roof technology to the variable and extreme American climate. This book shows how to design projects that will function and endure as successfully as those in Germany, Switzerland and other European countries. ...

Grant, Gary

Vanderzanden, Ann Marie

Gelfand, Lisa

The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for both Historic and modern existing buildingsThis forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance of the built environment. Great examples of existing building upgrades are examined, ill...

Yeang, Ken

In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it is vital that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of all human interventions in the natural environment. Finding green design solutions for our built environment must start from the wider scale of regional and urban planning and must then be carried right through to infrastructural engineering, architecture and...

Berens, Carol

The ultimate resource on strategies for redeveloping abandoned urban sitesArchitects, urban planners, urban designers, developers, city officials, and all those interested in revitalizing their post-industrial cities will find the tools they need here. "Redeveloping Industrial Sites" delivers solutions to complex issues concerning urban planning, design, and financing to reveal...

Dunham-Jones, Ellen

Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by ...

Dunnett, Nigel

The latest techniques for planting roofs and walls to enhance our buildings and benefit the environment. The green roof industry is booming and the technology changing fast as professionals respond to the unique challenges of each new planting. In this comprehensively updated, fully revised edition of their authoritative reference, Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury reveal the ve...