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This book explores the theories, practices and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic. (...)
Towards zero energy architecture : new solar design
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This book explores the theories, practices and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic. The book showcases ten award-winning buildings to illustrate the aesthetic and technological design integration of solar response in contemporary zero-energy and low-energy architecture.
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Architecture écologique
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In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting(...)
Tactical urbanism: short-term action for long-term change
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In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting improvements in their cities and beyond. These quick, often low-cost, and creative projects are the essence of the Tactical Urbanism movement.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as(...)
Ministry of Highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the country’s post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi.
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61 pages illustrations (some color) 27 cm
Budapest : Artunion/Széchenyi Publishing House, 1988.
Hotel Gellért / Dr. András Rubovszky.
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Budapest : Artunion/Széchenyi Publishing House, 1988.
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2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
London : RIBA Publications ; Forest Grove, Or. : Exclusive distributor, ISBS, 1978.
Solar technology for building : proceedings of the First International Conference on Solar Building Technology, 25-29 July 1977 at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London / edited by Costis Stambolis.
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London : RIBA Publications ; Forest Grove, Or. : Exclusive distributor, ISBS, 1978.
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"The Good House Book" offers an intelligent look at how a home is supposed to function and a variety of different building approaches. What’s important is finding the right solution to fit your individual needs, local climate, and natural resources. The broad range of topics covered include choosing a site; selecting materials; building with straw bale, cob, adobe, or(...)
The good house book : a common-sense guide to alternative homebuilding
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"The Good House Book" offers an intelligent look at how a home is supposed to function and a variety of different building approaches. What’s important is finding the right solution to fit your individual needs, local climate, and natural resources. The broad range of topics covered include choosing a site; selecting materials; building with straw bale, cob, adobe, or rammed earth; and plugging into alternative home power systems. This book includes interviews with six homeowners and photographs of the homes they built.
Architecture écologique
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This newest addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series, long admired for its willingness to propose architectural solutions to challenging problems, addresses the issue of rising sea levels with an interrogation of the concept of floating cities, a field of inquiry gaining increasing relevance and urgency with the impending reality of climate change. The authors explore(...)
Buoyant clarity: Pamphlet Architecture 36
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This newest addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series, long admired for its willingness to propose architectural solutions to challenging problems, addresses the issue of rising sea levels with an interrogation of the concept of floating cities, a field of inquiry gaining increasing relevance and urgency with the impending reality of climate change. The authors explore notions of buoyancy and the amphibious through a typology based on human response and adaptation to one of the most pressing issues of our day.
Revues
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While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political,(...)
Decolonizing nature : contemporary art and the politics of ecology
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While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.
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56 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Paris : Somogy, [2010]
Hanoï : rêves d'Occident en Extrême-Orient, Viêt-Nam / textes, Virginie Malherbe ; avec la collaboration de Caroline Herbelin ; photographies, Stéphane Asseline.
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56 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
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Paris : Somogy, [2010]
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[6], 164 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
[Boulder Colo.] : [University of Colorado], [1986]
Proceedings of a Workshop on Research Needs in HVAC Systems / co-sponsored by the University of Colorado, ASHRAE and NSPE ; supported by the National Science Foundation, NSPE and AGA ; February 10-11, 1986.
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[Boulder Colo.] : [University of Colorado], [1986]