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The Rough Guide to Sustainability

Brian Edwards

  • Format: Book

  • Pages: 208

  • Publisher: RIBA Publishing

  • Date Published: Aug 2005

  • Stock Code: 3675

  • ISBN: 9781859461747

  • Binding: Paperback

Description

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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About the Author

Brian Edwards

Dr Brian Edwards is Associate Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is an internationally recognised expert on sustainable architecture and a highly respected author of many books, six of which have been specifically on green issues. Brian has held numerous positions of responsibility within the field of architecture, including that of sustainability advisor to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2000-2002.

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