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The Rough Guide to Sustainability
Brian Edwards
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Format: Book
Pages: 208
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Date Published: Aug 2005
Stock Code: 3675
ISBN: 9781859461747
Binding: Paperback
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This comprehensively updated and expanded new second edition of the no-nonsense student and practice primer by Brian Edwards (Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture),equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability.The second edition includes completely new material on vernacular buildings, offices, schools and housing, a useful history of green architecture, education and a guide to the international conventions and agreements, including those from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Redesigned and illustrated throughout, Rough Guide to Sustainability will appeal to design and build environment students and professional.
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