Design with Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.
- Copyright year: 2010
Biophilic Cities
Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
A biophilic city, says Beatley, is a place that learns from nature and incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes. Biophilic Cities outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements – from the building to the regional level – around the world.
- Copyright year: 2010
Architecture of Community
A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Designing and Building
Rockhill and Associates
This book outlines twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to their more recent projects.
- Copyright year: 2011
Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments
A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Agile City
Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
In a very short time, America realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: What to do about it?
- Copyright year: 2011
Hylozoic Ground
Liminal Responsive Architecture
Philip Beesley; edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs
- Copyright year: 2011
Making Healthy Places
Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment.
- Copyright year: 2011
Architecture and the Canadian Fabric
Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.
- Copyright year: 2011
@LAB Architextile Laboratory
Electronic textiles in architecture
- Copyright year: 2011
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Fabricate 2011
Making Digital Architecture
- Copyright year: 2013
BattersbyHowat
Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.
- Copyright year: 2013
How to Study Public Life
Methods in Urban Design
- Copyright year: 2013
Tactical Urbanism
Short-term Action for Long-term Change
- Copyright year: 2015
Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
- Copyright year: 2015
Competing Modernisms
Toronto's New City Hall and Square
- Copyright year: 2015