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  • Designers Visionaries and Other Stories

    A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

    by Jonathan Chapman, Nick Gant ...
    Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • How to Build a Global Model Earthship Operation I: Tire Work

    by Michael Reynolds ...
    This booklet is the first in a twelve part series that walks the owner/builder through the construction of a Global Model Earthship. This installment covers building the thermal mass walls out of tires, the thermal wrap, vent tubes, cistern installation and front stem walls. Photographs, diagrams and thorough explanations of procedures will guide you through the tire work phase of the building ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hello World

    Where Design Meets Life

    by Alice Rawsthorn ...
    Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness. And yet with Instagram and Pinterest at our fingers and great design more available—and more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design as Future-Making

    Edited by Director, Masters in Design Studies Program Susan Yelavich, Barbara Adams ...
    Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Sustainable Healthcare Architecture

    by Robin Guenther, Gail Vittori ...
    Series Book 41 - Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
    "With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical our green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come."—From the Foreword by Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building CouncilINDISPENSABLE ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • Asian Style Hotels

    Bali, Java, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

    by Kim Inglis ...
    With more than 500 ravishing full-color photographs, Asian Style Hotels brings you to the best hotels in Southeast Asia.Hotels from Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are showcased in great detail. The super-deluxe establishments included here are all at the cutting-edge of hotel design and management. Each property has been hand-picked according to a set of criteria that includes a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Green Building and Remodeling For Dummies

    by Eric Corey Freed ...
    Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Giovanni Pintori. The Stark Tension between Flair and Discretion.

    by Massimiliano Musina ...
    Giovanni Pintori (Tresnuraghes 1912–Milan 1999) was one of the best-known, widely admired and respected Italian designers worldwide. The winner of sought-after international awards, he designed impressive works that created the Olivetti image and were an emblematic reference in the history of 20th-century design. This book, the only in-depth monographic study of Pintori, investigates his life and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change Here Now

    Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

    by Adam Brock ...
    Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for ... Read more

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  • Integrating Building Performance with Design

    An Architecture Student’s Guidebook

    by Elizabeth J. Grant ...
    Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 100 full color images to help you with your work. Topics include site, solar orientation, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sustainable Buildings in Practice

    What the Users Think

    by George Baird ...
    Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants’ needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Managing Corporate Design

    Best Practices for In-House Graphic Design Departments

    by Peter L. Phillips ...
    Corporations increasingly view graphic design as a core strategic business competency in a highly competitive climate, and they are challenging their in-house designers to supply far more than a service or support function. Their new role is to provide sound solutions to real-world business pressures. Managing Corporate Design addresses-head-on-these new challenges in a highly practical manner ... Read more

    $14.99 USD