A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design

A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design
ISBN-10
1136528725
ISBN-13
9781136528729
Category
Architecture
Pages
153
Language
English
Published
2012-06-25
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Vivienne Brophy, J Owen Lewis

Description

2000 years ago the roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern book for today.Classic design elegance is found in the holistic clear solution.Now fully updated, this well established textbook provides advice suitable for undergraduate and post graduate students on the integration of sustainable practice into the design and construction process, the issues to be considered, the strategies to be adopted, the elements of green design and design evaluation within the process.

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