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Environmental Design: An Introduction for Architects and Engineers - Softcover

Thomas, R.

 
9780419199304: Environmental Design: An Introduction for Architects and Engineers

Synopsis

Environmental design is an area of growing concern to architects. This introductory text will offer a useful overview and provide design guidance to the environmental engineering of "green" architecture. The basic principles of site planning, building form, materials and services engineering will be supported by examples of innovative practice. Case studies, which include prize-winning buildings, demonstrate how more environmentally appropriate and aesthetically attractive buildings can be realised successfully.

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About the Author

Randall Thomas has been active in practice and teaching for over thirty years. He is visiting Professor in Architectural Science at Kingston University, UK, and has been a Partner of Max Fordham LLP since 1987.

Review

"...the book serves as an excellent design primer and guide to the environmental performance required of contemporary architecture and engineering." -- Building Services Journal

"It covers very technical issues, but in a way that makes them interesting, readable and understandable. It has been put together with an understanding of architecture and of how architects and engineers work...For practising architects and undergraduates alike, this book contains much useful and thoughtful guidance. Designers should be able to use it to improve the way they address environmental design." -- The Architect's Journal

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