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( Re) stitch Tampa is a design research platform wich includes essays and design proposals from the international design ideas competition (Re) stich Tampa.

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A simple guide on how to address urban ills and promote environmentally responsible community planning in developing countries.

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Architects today incorporate principles of sustainable design as a matter of necessity. But the challenge of unifying climate control and building functionality, of securing a managed environment within a natural setting--and combating the harsh forces of wind, water, and sun--presented a new set of obstacles to architects and engineers in the mid-

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Despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines - architecture, planning and ecology - which we must come to grips with if we are to design future cities that are genuinely sustainable. This book takes a major step along this path.

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The easy-to-understand "rocket science" you need to design durable, healthy, comfortable high-performance houses

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Essential Cob Construction presents both hands-on and rigorous technical information on how to build code compliant, low-embodied carbon, and fire- and earthquake-resistant buildings from cob a mix of clay, sand and straw. The definitive cob guide for engineers, architects, designers, contractors, and owner-builders.

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The book reclaims the materiality and spatiality of municipal solid waste systems.

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Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls by Anneke van Waesberghe is so much more than a book about tented green building architecture. The book is part design manifesto, part personal diary, and part manual for future sustainable living.

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On Rigor provides an engaging, in-depth look at 13 seminal residential and commercial projects by critically acclaimed Johnsen Schmaling Architects, whose award-winning work is widely known for its conceptual rigor, serene simplicity, and an unequivocal commitment to architectural innovation and environmental sustainability.

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GEO - Earth - is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us.

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During Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape through

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The content of this book represents a wide selection of the plans and projects developed in the city of Barcelona in the period covering from the year 2011 to 2015.

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Following on from his work on land-based zero-carbon developments, and creation of urban green spaces on skycourts and skygardens, Jason Pomeroy moves to water-based research.

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Pressing Matters VII is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture, it features recent student work, news, important symposia and lectures, and is printed on recycled paper with non-toxic inks.

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With a rich collection of original essays and projects, this book combines reflexive knowledge, critical imagination, and design experimentation to provide scenarios for Chinese suburban development.

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Twelve critical essays in this book present a constellation of voices surrounding carbon and its relationship with architecture, renovation, material, form, and design pedagogy.

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Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate

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Architecture must not only be functionally green, but its formal, conceptual and physical properties also need to constitute a novel and integrated living material system, one that can flourish within the larger world around it.

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Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world's most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive

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An up-to-the-minute survey of the best sustainable design and architecture.

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Design Futuring argues that ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now require a new type of practice which recognises design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. By using case studies in industrial design and architecture, Tony Fry exposes the limitations of existing 'sustainable design'.