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Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments

Island Press

A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Designing and Building

Rockhill and Associates

Edited by Brian Carter; By Rockhill and Associates
Dalhousie Architectural Press

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
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Architecture of Community

Island Press

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
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Biophilic Cities

Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

Island Press

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
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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

Island Press

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
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Kinetic Architectures and Geotextile Installations

Edited by Philip Beesley
Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2010
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Atelier BUILD

Dalhousie Architectural Press

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: 2010
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Twenty + Change 01

Emerging Toronto Design Practices

Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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A History of Domestic Space

Privacy and the Canadian Home

UBC Press

Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and been shaped by – these changing spaces.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Green Building Trends

Europe

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Architecture e+c

Work of Elin + Carmen Corneil, 1958 to 2008

Dalhousie Architectural Press

This publication documents the travelling exhibition of the Corneils’ work which opened as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Carleton School of Architecture in October 2008.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Free Lab

Design-build projects from the School of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1991-2006

Dalhousie Architectural Press

A selection of 44 projects from the 20-year old design-build summer laboratory offered at Dalhousie University School of Architecture, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Responsive Textile Environments

Dalhousie Architectural Press, TUNS Press and Riverside Architectural Press

Companion publication for the Metabolic Network Sensory CDRN workshop, Oct. 1-2, 2007, held in conjunction with the ACADIA conference "Expanding Bodies" in Halifax, NS.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Expanding Bodies

Art, Cities, Environment

Dalhousie Architectural Press, TUNS Press and Riverside Architectural Press

Companion publication for the ACADIA conference “Expanding Bodies” held in Halifax, NS, October 4-7, 2007.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Atlantic Modern

The Architecture of the Atlantic Provinces 1950-2000

Edited by Steven Mannell
Dalhousie Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2004
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Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, 1995-2002

Edited by Brian Carter; By Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Dalhousie Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Vancouver Achievement

Urban Planning and Design

UBC Press

This first comprehensive account of contemporary planning and urban design practice in any Canadian city examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from its inception in the early 1970s to the present day.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Digital Fabricators

Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2004
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Environmental Land Use Planning and Management

Island Press

Environmental Land Use Planning and Management is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and management and their impacts on the environment.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Planning the New Suburbia

Flexibility by Design

UBC Press

Everybody sneers at the suburb, but two-thirds of us now live there. Friedman's book shows how we might make the suburb liveable, affordable, adaptable and environmentally sustainable -- make them into real neighbourhoods.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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