Sustainability

A practical guide for architects and planners showing how we can do even better than net-zero energy.

Practice with Purpose is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society's most urgent challenges: the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises, and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings.

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate

The book 'Solar Futures' by award-winning solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the past, present and future of solar energy.

Drawing on contributions from more than thirty scholars and experts in the field, this book examines the role of business as an enabler, as an inhibiter, and ultimately as a co-actor in global sustainability transformations expected over the next few decades.

Sustainable Nanomaterials for the Construction Industry examines applications of sustainable nanomaterials used in the building construction sector. The chapters focus on sustainable construction materials using nanotechnology such as pigments, modified cement, polymer, glass, phase change materials, and air purification.

How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement.