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Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings
The book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method “beyond” the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative. It offers a novel philosophical design approach in which buildings, new or renovated, are in balance with natural, renewable energies and become “concentrators-distributors” of energies instead of being consumers of resources. The book is composed of five chapters, providing information on fundamental aspects of innovations toward resource-efficient buildings, as well as case studies presenting the concept in practice. It demonstrates that a completely new design approach is possible, and that a turning point has been reached. Lastly, it shows how the AH Alliance, along with designers, institutions, industries and academies, is bringing a breath of fresh air to the world of construction.
Green Buildings Pay
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced by architect, engineer and client today. Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology examines, through a range of detailed case studies, how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. These cases are examined from three main perspectives: that of the architect, the client and the user. Completely revised with all new chapters, cases, section...
Holistic Housing
"Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes" is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning. 15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building's significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.
Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.1)
This book of Proceedings presents the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving world of architecture and sustainable development through 255 selected papers by authors coming from over 60 countries.
Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.2)
This book of Proceedings presents the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving world of architecture and sustainable development through 255 selected papers by authors coming from over 60 countries.
Nachhaltige Wohnkonzepte
»Nachhaltige Wohnkonzepte. Entwurfsmethoden und Prozesse« ist ein Grundlagenwerk zum Thema Wohnungsbau. Den Nachhaltigkeitsfragen geht die Publikation vor allem im Hinblick auf die Planung nach, analysiert aber auch die Nutzung und Alterung des Gebäudes im Lebenszyklus. Eine eigens hierfür in einem begleitenden Forschungsprojekt entwickelte Systematik von Kriterien eignet sich einerseits dazu, Gebäude zu vergleichen und zu bewerten. Sie kann jedoch gleichzeitig als Werkzeug genutzt werden, um im Planungsprozess die Nachhaltigkeit des zu entwickelnden Gebäudes zu optimieren. Denn die meisten bestehenden Nachhaltigkeitssysteme verstehen sich nicht als Entwurfs- und Planungswerkzeuge, son...
Frugtbare partnerskaber
Danmark står over for en mangfoldighed af udfordringer i disse år. Udgiftspresset stiger, de offentlige opgaver vokser, og der bliver flere ældre og færre til at forsørge dem. Der skal leveres bedre velfærd for færre midler. En af vejene til at imødekomme disse udfordringer er et frugtbart samarbejde mellem offentlige og private virksomheder. Denne bog åbner en debat om disse nødvendige partnerskaber. Det handler om økonomi og nye løsninger, men også om ideologi, politik, fordomme og erfaringer. Der skal findes nye måder at løse opgaver på og nye måder at samarbejde på.
Battle of Okinawa
A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.
American Journalism and International Relations
American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated, and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters. This book is a history of U.S. foreign correspondence from the 1840s to the present, relying on more than 2,000 news articles and twenty major world events, from the 1848 European revolutions to the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Americans' perceptions of other nations, combined with pervasive and enduring understandings of the United States' role in global politics, act as constraints on policies. Dell'Orto finds that reductive media discourse (as seen during the 1967 War in the Middle East or Afghanistan in the 1980s) has a negative effect on policy, whereas correspondence grounded in events (such as during the Japanese attack on Shanghai in the 1930s or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991) fosters effective leadership and realistic assessments.
Vera
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME “Monumental.”—The Boston Globe “Utterly romantic.”—New York magazine “Deeply moving.”—The Seattle Times Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; a...
