Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment

An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering.

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient.
180 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations