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Lessons from Traditional Architecture: Achieving Climatic Buildings by Studying the Past

Simos Yannas and Willi Weber

  • Format: Book

  • Pages: 208

  • Publisher: Earthscan

  • Date Published: Aug 2013

  • Stock Code: 68808

  • Binding: Hardback

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The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. This has been rekindled by the need to develop an architecture that works with climate, rather than against it, to create more sustainable buildings. Most earlier research and existing publications on traditional or vernacular architecture have followed an anthropological or archaeological approach, whereas books on climatic design and sustainable architecture tend to refer to contemporary principles and built precedents without direct reference to past experience.

Lessons from Traditional Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. Case studies from around the world focus on environmental design aspects of traditional architecture in a broad range of climatic conditions and building types.

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