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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The global sustainability problem. Solar energy use through time Uncontrolled growth causes uncontrollable problems Our ecological footprint Global warming and climate change — Ecology and the environment. Ecosystem example : the Chesapeake Bay Ecology and architecture Environmental economics Nature’s geometry — The residential scale. Building example : WaterShed House LEED for residential buildings The energy design process Bioclimatic design Solar control and shading Passive solar heating Passive cooling Embodied energy and thermal mass High insulation levels Green materials — The commercial scale. Building example : The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Building Overview of the LEED for commercial buildings rating system Daylighting Electric lighting Heating and cooling Indoor air quality Green roofs Material choices — The urban scale. Urban example : San Francisco LEED for neighborhood development Urbanism Transit oriented development — Energy sources. Conventional energy sources Alternative energy sources.

Subjects:

• Sustainable buildings.
• Sustainable architecture.
• Renewable energy sources.
• City planning — Environmental aspects.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-438) and index.
• Reshaping cities in the vertical age — The logic of vertical density — Economics and city infrastructure — The city skyline and visual integration — Placemaking with tall buildings — Achieving architectural and engineering qualities — The rise of the iconic high-rise — Strategies for regulating vertical density — Sustainable tall buildings and cities — Urban and architectural design guidelines — Skyscraper cities of the world — Innovative urban design for tall buildings — Future skyscraper cities.
• Drawing on the experience of several cities from different parts of the world, this text provides a global perspective on the urbanization phenomenon and tall building development, and examines their underlying logic, design drivers, contextual relationships and pitfalls.

Subjects:

• Tall buildings — Design and construction.
• Skyscrapers — Design and construction.
• City planning.

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• Ecological houses — Texas — Huntsville.
• Phoenix Commotion (Organization)
• Phillips, Dan, 1946-
• House construction — Materials — Texas — Huntsville.
• Waste products as building materials — Texas — Huntsville.
• Building materials — Recycling — Texas — Huntsville.
• Salvage (Waste, etc.) — Texas — Huntsville.
• Construction industry — Texas — Huntsville.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.
• Fred Keck : the first solar architect — The solar house and the glass house — Frank Lloyd Wright and the hemicycle — Acres of glass: the promotional effort — Hoyt Hottel: a skeptical innovator — Two opposed attitudes: the schism — Concerted efforts: integration — Too cheap to meter: the economic context — Living with the sun: a global movement — After the crisis.
• The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the United States and around the world. The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today. The solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s, and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar houses which were constructed during the previous four decades, beginning with the work of masters of twentieth-century architecture such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, Pietro Belluschi, Edward Durell Stone, and Harwell Hamilton Harris, and continuing with more recent innovations like the German Passivhaus movement and the Heliotrope, the first house to produce more energy than it consumed, and the U.S.-based Solar Decathlon, conceived as a living demonstration laboratory and recently expanded to include contests in Europe and China. Not only are these innovative projects the models for architects exploring environmentally conscious design today, they hold the imagination of the wider public, beginning with the idealism of the 1960s, the pragmatism that accompanied the energy crisis of the 1970s, and continuing into the twenty-first century with the demand for environmentally sustainable living. The first complete study of solar house design through the decades, this volume is a must-have resource for designers today. — Provided by publisher

Subjects:

• Solar houses — Design and construction.
• Architecture — Environmental aspects.
• Sustainable architecture.
• Architecture — Environmental aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00813425
• Solar houses — Design and construction. fast (OCoLC)fst01125117
• Sustainable architecture. fast (OCoLC)fst01139728

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