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  • Sole Survivor

    A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation and Survival

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father’s journey through the Holocaust and find his family’s genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which they were imprisoned and killed. Avi finds powerful ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Place in Mind

    The Search for Authenticity, Revised Edition

    de Avi Friedman ...
    A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity is the result of Avi Friedman’s worldwide quest for successful environments where people congregate and feel comfortable. Whether he writes of the conviviality of a teahouse in Istanbul; the serenity of Assisi; the squatter settlements of Tijuana, or the architectural harmony of neighbourhoods in London, Friedman conveys his excitement at discovering ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing

    Fostering Sustainability and Livability

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. This book highlights innovative planning strategies for livability and wellbeing of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • A View From the Porch

    Rethinking Home and Community Design

    de Avi Friedman ...
    A View from the Porch is an illuminating collection of 22 essays about the points where design touches life and the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighbourhoods.Drawing on his experiences as an architect, planner, world traveller, and educator, Friedman delves into issues such as the North American obsession with monster homes, the impact ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. More than ever, professionals need reliable information about how to construct or retrofit livable, sustainable, and economical homes. With Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings, Avi Friedman provides that resource. While other books on residential green building are often either superficial ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods

    de Avi Friedman ...
    This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book’s fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices.Past approaches to planning and design ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns

    Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world’s population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Common approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. Rather than dismissing small and mid-sized towns as unattractive suburban sprawl, Planning Small ... Leer más

    Antes $74.99 USD Ahora $63.99 USD

  • Sustainable Lessons from People-Friendly Places

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call for innovative thinking. In a world that is becoming highly urbanized, the need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental global changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The book introduces fundamental principles of timely ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Innovative Houses

    Concepts for Sustainable Living

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the non-traditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources. Designing residential environments that address these issues is an urgent priority.This book examines the latest ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • The Sustainable Digital City

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world. Seven axes of urban planning have been selected to highlight how data and technology currently work and how these systems can be improved going forward. Each aspect is explored in its own chapter that combines narrative description, illustrations, and case studies to show how ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Town and Terraced Housing

    For Affordability and Sustainability

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient affordable living.Townhouses have been used for hundreds of years, and their evolution is ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD