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9780393730920

Energy Efficient Buildings Cl

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393730920

  • ISBN10:

    0393730921

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-07-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6(4)
Industrialization and the transformation of architecture
10(3)
Origins-technology and architecture in the 19th century
13(8)
The Modern Movement and the new synthesis
21(3)
Concealed power versus exposed power
24(9)
The evolving envelope
33(2)
Natural versus mechanical energy
35(4)
A taxonomy of environmental architecture
39(3)
Critical Studies Selective Mode 42(102)
Offices for Apicorp
DEGW
44(10)
Eastgate
Pearce Partnership
54(8)
Arup Campus
Arup Associates
62(10)
Howlands Farm Student Housing
Arup Associates
72(6)
Marzahn Low-Energy Apartment Building
Assmann, Salomon & Scheidt
78(8)
BedZED Sustainable Development
Bill Dunster
86(10)
Mont Cenis Training Centre
Jourda & Perraudin
96(10)
Study Centre, Darwin College
Dixon & Jones
106(8)
Jubilee Campus
Michael Hopkins
114(12)
Cultural Centre
Renzo Piano
126(10)
Carmel Mountain Ranch Public Library
M.W. Steele Group Inc.
136(8)
Critical Studies Exclusive Mode 144(88)
Helicon Building
Sheppard Robson
146(10)
Villa VPRO Offices
MVRDV
156(8)
Beyeler Foundation Museum
Renzo Piano
164(10)
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Francois de Menil
174(8)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Paul Josef Kleihues
182(10)
Walsall Art Gallery
Caruso St John
192(10)
Tate Modern
Herzog & de Meuron
202(10)
Portuguese Pavilion
Alvaro Siza
212(10)
Velodrome
Dominique Perrault
222(10)
Appendix 232
Endnotes and sources
Project credits
Picture credits
Index

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