This is a showcase of contemporary interior products that are both ecologically sound and beautifully designed, guiding you through the complex issues involved in creating and choosing eco-friendly designs for the home.

An essential resource for consumers as well as an ideal reference for students in the growing field of sustainable design, this book features 1000 of the most exciting stylish and environmentally friendly products for interiors.

A simple rating system helps to cut through the eco maze to show how the products make a minimal impact on the earth, and you will also find details of where to buy the featured designs.

The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail.

The author’s presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.

This book presents a survey of K-12 Schools from around the world that combine the best in aesthetics, sustainability and high performance design.

K-12 school construction currently represents one of the largest sectors of new construction of any building type. Considering rising energy costs and concerns for the environment, there has never been more attention focused on the need to design schools responsibly. The book highlights the work that the best architects are doing to respond to those needs while still creating beautiful schools for enhanced learning.

Ken Yeang is an architect-planner and ecologist whose pioneering masterplanning and design work is soundly based on a theoretical framework of ecological and bioclimatic premises. A leader in his field, Yeang has been at the cutting edge of sustainable design for almost 40 years and has worked and taught all over the world.

Yeang approaches each building as an addition to the earth’s living, breathing eco-system and, as the link between the health of planet earth and what we have been doing to it since the industrial revolution becomes more and more obvious and undeniable, the pressure to follow his example will grow. This new dictionary has been compiled by the authors as a response to this growing problem and is claimed to be the first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. It provides over 1500 definitions and explanations together with some very helpful illustrations and figures.

This book aims to expose the pitfalls of ‘greenwashing' in an immediate, visually-arresting and authoritative way. The intention is to present basic tenets in a quickfire, highly accessible format that is based on 30 years of practical experience.

A number of case studies support its central message, that the scattergun, ‘Christmas tree' approach should be ditched in favour of ‘eco-minimalism' – the holistic, considered and appropriate deployment of building science in support of truly ecological, affordable sustainable architecture for everyone.

James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, François Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.

Underlying Yeang's buildings and projects over the last 30 years is a programme of cutting-edge research, development and design on the ecological aspects of large buildings.

The projects described in this book represent stages in that research programme, showing a commitment to innovative design achieved in a commercially competitive context. The book also presents the theoretical base for Yeang's deign work, and looks to the future to explorations in environmentally friendly design strategies for 'green' skyscrapers.

This beautifully illustrated book by distinguished conservationist, Donald Insall, is a successor to articles first commissioned by the Architects Journal in 1957 to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and then republished in 1972 as The Care of Old Buildings Today. It encapsulates 50 full years of ideas and sound practical experience, both in daily practice and in training, lecturing for and inspiring others, both in the UK and overseas.

The team’s experience, generously shared in these handsome pages, covers buildings from the smallest to the greatest, and even entire historic areas.

Stunningly redesigned and extensively illustrated throughout, this is a comprehensively updated, restructured and expanded new edition of this no-nonsense student and practice primer which equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability.

Written by Brian Edwards, Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, this book sets out the environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainable principles, as well as outlining the science, measures and design solutions that designers need to adopt to meet twenty-first century definitions of responsible architecture. The third edition includes updated design advice on building types, a useful history of green architecture education and new material prepared in anticipation of fresh international agreements at the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming in 2009.

The conprehensively updated and expanded new edition of this no-nonsense student and practice primer equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability

Think bigger. A lot bigger. Rather than tinker with the status quo and pay lip service to sustainability CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett and his colleague Ed Liu have come up with a manifesto to deal with the eco-monsters stalking our planet; overpopulation, climate change and insufficient food supplies. And they prefer to think big – hence the term Smartcity.

The authors realise that a return to an agrarian idyll of cottages and small holdings is impractical in our increasingly
urbanised world and point out that a well planned city can be incredibly efficient, sociable and sustainable. The solution, logically enough, is to develop a programme for new cities that aims to satisfy the conflicting demands of sustainability, economics and the sociological interaction of their inhabitants.