Main entry:

Hawkes, Dean.

Title & Author:

Energy efficient buildings : architecture, engineering, and environment / Dean Hawkes and Wayne Forster.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2002.

Description:

239 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Pt. 1] Introduction -- Industrialization and the transformation of architecture -- Origins: Technology and architecture in the 19th century -- The Modern Movement and the new synthesis -- Concealed power versus exposed power -- The evolving envelope -- Natural versus mechanical energy -- A taxonomy of environmental architecture -- [Pt. 2] Critical studies: Selective mode -- Offices for Apicorp: DEGW -- Eastgate: Pearce Partnership -- Arup Campus: Arup Associates -- Howlands Farm Student Housing: Arup Associates -- Marzahn low-energy apartment building: Assmann, Salomon & Scheidt -- BedZED sustainable development: Bill Dunster -- Mont Cenis Training Centre: Jourda & Perraudin -- Study Centre, Darwin College: Dixon & Jones -- Jubilee Campus: Michael Hopkins -- Cultural Centre: Renzo Piano -- Carmel Mountain Ranch Public Library: M.W. Steele Group Inc. -- [Pt. 3] Critical studies: Exclusive mode -- Helicon Building: Sheppard Robson -- Villa VPRO offices: MVRDV -- Beyeler Foundation Museum: Renzo Piano -- Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum: François de Menil -- Museum of Contemporary Art: Paul Josef Kleihues -- Walsall Art Gallery: Caruso St John -- Tate Modern: Herzog & de Meuron -- Portuguese pavilion: Alvaro Siza -- Velodrome: Dominique Perrault -- [Pt. 4] Appendix -- Endnotes and sources -- Project credits -- Picture credits -- Index.

Summary:

"This book, produced in association with Arup, the largest firm of consulting engineers in the world, explores the close relationship between architecture and engineering." "Energy Efficient Buildings addresses the ways in which architects and engineers collaborate in the process of environmental control in buildings. From the beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, they began to work together to achieve new standards of comfort within buildings and, as a consequence, to bring about a fundamental transformation in the nature of architecture. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the debate on the vulnerability of the global environment has given a new significance to the environmental agenda in architecture."
"The authors' introduction traces the historical development of the environmental strand of architectural theory and practice, establishing the background for twenty critical studies of international contemporary buildings, each built in association with Arup. Connecting the environmental function of architecture to the wider historical and theoretical discourse, Energy Efficent Buildings will appeal to practitioners within the fields of architecture, environmental design, and engineering, as well as to those with an interest in these areas."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0393730921
9780393730920

Subject:

Architecture and energy conservation.
Buildings Environmental engineering.
Architecture et économies d'énergie.
Constructions Technique de l'environnement.
energy efficient buildings.
Energiebewusstes Bauen
Beispielsammlung
Architecture écologique.
Construction écologique.
Économies d'énergie.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Beispielsammlung.

Added entries:

Forster, Wayne.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223172
Call No.: NA44.O96.A35 2002
Status: Available