Sustainaspeak

A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms

Elizabeth Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-28332-9 (ISBN)

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Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations.

Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping.

What does it all mean?

The complex and evolving language used in the sustainable design community can be very challenging, particularly to those new to environmentally friendly and resource-efficient design strategies that are needed today.

Definitions of over two hundred terms with further sources.

Clearly cross-referenced with Sustainaspeak, Theoryspeak, and Archispeak terms.

Illustrated throughout with sustainable award-winning buildings by e.g. Behnisch, Brooks + Scarpa, EHDD, KieranTimberlake, Lake|Flato, Leddy Mahtum Stacy, SmithGroup, Perkins+Will, ZGF, VMDO, and McDonough + Partners.

Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms, and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations.

Elizabeth Lewis, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor at Florida A&M University School of Architecture, USA, has over twenty-five years of design teaching experience with a research focus on high-performing and net-zero buildings. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she is active in the profession and AIA leadership, a founder of USGBC Florida Capital Region Chapter, and a contributor to Decoding Theoryspeak.

Illustrations. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. List of Terms. Acronyms for Further Sources. Sustainaspeak. Further Reading. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	31 Line drawings, black and white; 48 Halftones, black and white; 79 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-28332-0 / 1138283320
ISBN-13	978-1-138-28332-9 / 9781138283329
Zustand	Neuware