Sustainable - Houses with Small Footprints

Author(s): Avi Friedman

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE | RESIDENTIAL | RIZZOLI

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices. What is known as living off the grid is possible, and Sustainable presents forty-five houses that demonstrate how architects have implemented sustainable design concepts around the world. These projects show us what time-tested vernacular design principles—including local materials, natural ventilation strategies, and earth shelter construction—can teach us, as well as how the latest cutting-edge technologies—such as indoor farming and "living walls" made of plant material—can make truly sustainable design possible. The variety and ingenuity of the projects featured here make Sustainable a uniquely coherent and authoritative volume on sustainable residential design.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780847843725
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
  • : February 2015
  • : May 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Avi Friedman
  • : Hardback
  • : 515
  • : 336