Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, ...
Libro práctico, con indicaciones exactas para hacerse un hormo de barro. Valioso por su ahorro en frustraciones y trabajo. Las abundantes y agradables ilustraciones ...
-Kiosc, Woods Bagot -Sede MRW, Nomen Arquitectes -Vivienda para tres heramnas, Blancafort-Reus -La Tabacalera, Ayuntamiento de Tarragona -Lucernario Novartis, Onys Solar -El jardín de ...
These houses, energy-efficient, very well insulated, and virtually airtight, represent the future as our society moves towards carbon neutrality and trading lighter on the ...
The must-have reference on standards and best practices in sustainable design and construction.The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive references specifically and ...
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city ...
La sostenibilidad ha convertido en un reto social de inmensa importancia. A partir de la Revolución Industrial, las sociedades occidentales se han organizado bajo ...
Sustainability has become one of the main key phrases and goals of our time. Environmentally compatible methods of construction and products are hotly sought ...
Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented ...
Una nueva generación de arquitectos está previendo un futuro en el que la arquitectura convive en una relación simbiótica con la naturaleza, inspirados por ...
Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit ...
Werner Schmidt (1953) is one of the most interesting contemporary Swiss architects. Once graduated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna he moved ...
Green areas of all kinds have gained significance for contemporary urban planning. In addition to the importance for the structure and appearance of urban ...
The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that 'meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations ...
Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far ...
Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science ...
With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting ...
According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs. This is an ...
