Visual Tips on Eco Living by S Costa
$69.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
Called the "new architecture for the new world," sustainable building is firmly established as an important influence on residential design. This book is a complete guide to the structural features and interior and exterior elements that make a house healthy for its residents and for Earth. From solar r ...Show more
The Energy- Freedom Home: How to Wipe Out Electricity and Gas Bills in Nine Steps by Beyond Zero Emissions
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
Paying for energy is the largest running cost that most home-owners are burdened with. And that's no surprise -- we use energy to heat our water, refrigerate our food and drink, run our heaters and air conditioners, light out homes at night, cook our meals, run our TV's, and charge our computers. There ...Show more
Cabin Porn - Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere by Zach Klein; Steven Leckart
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
In August 2010, Zach Klein bought a 50 acre patch of land in upstate New York on which to a build cabin and reconnect with nature. He called it Beaver Brook. His friends, former city-dwellers, soon followed, building cabins of their own on the land they shared. CABIN PORN began as an online scrapbook ...Show more
New ECO Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living by Manel Gutierrez
$69.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
A stunning, full-color showcase of the latest innovations in sustainable architecture and eco-friendly design, featuring thirty-five diverse homes. Today's architects, designers, building craftsman, and homeowners are becoming more environmentally conscious, choosing eco-friendly living spaces with smal ...Show more
Green Architecture Now!: v. 1 by Philip Jodidio
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
How green is your blueprint? This title looks at architecture as sustainable technology. The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings; in an era of rocketing energy costs ...Show more
Eco-Houses by Barbara Linz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental | Series: Ullmann Architecture Compacts
Materials inspire and arouse emotions, they surround us everywhere, we possess them and feel them. As with people, our first impression of them is provided by the visual perception they create. The Architecture Compact series presents materials that on the one hand convey a unique impression through the ...Show more
The Best of Grand Designs by Kevin McCloud
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental | Reading Level: very good
A complete celebration of Britain's favourite architectural show. Grand Designs is broadcast in over 130 countries and regularly gleans 5 million viewers in the UK. Its success, says Kevin, is due to 'good old-fashioned story telling; of joy and sorrow, torment and triumph, expressed tangibly in the mak ...Show more
1000 Tips by 100 Eco Architects: Guidelines on Sustainable Architecture from the World's Leading Eco-architecture Firms by Marta Serrats
$44.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
The process of executing an architectural plan, a building or the process of executing an architectural plan, a building or a landscape, can be disastrous for the environment. The construction process, whether it is erecting a building or excavating a landscape, is destructive. Toxic land sites are dist ...Show more
Sustainable Residential Architecture by Ana Maria Alvarez
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
A showcase of sustainable living in prefab, solar, mobile and modular houses. In this book, architect Ana Maria Alvarez presents an array of the world's best sustainable residential architecture. Studying houses in many countries, she provides photographs, floor plans and elevations, mechanical schemati ...Show more
Residential Eco Homes by EDITORS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern & contemporary
This book includes a carefully chosen collection of over 60 projects whose ecological, sustainable or bioclimatic designs make them the most cutting edge homes on today's residential architectural stage. Bioclimatic diagrams, photographs and specific plans are used to show that sustainability can live h ...Show more
Vitamin Green by Phaidon Editors
$89.95 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental | Reading Level: very good
Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape ar ...Show more
Rooftop Garden Design by David Fletcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Sustainable / Environmental
Green roofs - the ultimate in sustainable building practices - continue to generate enormous interest and enthusiasm among architects, landscape designers, and urban planners. This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary trends in rooftop garden design, and provides defini ...Show more