Understanding Sustainable ArchitectureTaylor & Francis, 2003 M09 2 - 176 pages Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments. |
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... less, be traced to the early 1970s. Emerging from the same period, labels such as 'low energy', 'solar' and 'passive' are used to denote approaches to designing concerned with the concept of reducing reliance on fossil fuels to operate ...
... less about what nature can do to us, and more about what we have done to nature. This marks the transition from the predominance of external risk to that of manufactured risk. (Giddens 1999a) Manufactured risk is created by the impact ...
... less energy for heating, cooling and lighting than is typical for its class. They both appear as manifestations of the values that have come to be associated with sustainability (von Bonsdorff 1993: 8). The implications for our ...
... logical' fashion shapes our understanding of the whole problem. The whole consists of the sum of the parts, no more and no less. Confidence in this process is evident in the trademark of positivism, belief in 'the Sustainability 7.
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