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Environmental Design: An Introduction for Architects and Engineers 1st ed Edition
Author(s): R. Thomas (Author)
- Publisher: Spon Press
- Publication Date: December 1, 1995
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- Print length: 225 pages
- ISBN-10: 0419199306
- ISBN-13: 9780419199304
Book Description
Environmental design is an area of growing concern to architects. This introductory text will offer a useful overview and provide design guidance to the environmental engineering of “green” architecture. The basic principles of site planning, building form, materials and services engineering will be supported by examples of innovative practice. Case studies, which include prize-winning buildings, demonstrate how more environmentally appropriate and aesthetically attractive buildings can be realised successfully.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…the book serves as an excellent design primer and guide to the environmental performance required of contemporary architecture and engineering.” — Building Services Journal
“It covers very technical issues, but in a way that makes them interesting, readable and understandable. It has been put together with an understanding of architecture and of how architects and engineers work…For practising architects and undergraduates alike, this book contains much useful and thoughtful guidance. Designers should be able to use it to improve the way they address environmental design.” —
The Architect’s Journal
