The greening of architecture / by Phillip James Tabb and A. Senem Deviren.

By:

Tabb, Phillip

Contributor(s):

Deviren, A. Senem

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781409447405
1409447405

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Greening of architectureDDC classification:

720/.47 23

LOC classification:

NA2542.36 .T333 2013eb

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Contents:

Origins of green architecture -- 1960's: an environmental awakening -- 1970's: solar architecture -- 1980's: postmodern green -- 1990's: eco-technology -- 2000's: sustainable pluralism -- The global landscape.

Summary: This accessible and engaging text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural and climatic contexts.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This accessible and engaging text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural and climatic contexts.

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