Sustainability & Green Design
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Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction
$39.99 Read moreWritten by leading practitioners, Straw Bale Building Details is the must-have illustrated guide to design and construction details for site-built straw bale buildings. Essential for avoiding costly m
- Author: Casba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0865719039
- Language: English
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Twisted Oak: A Journey to Create a Self-Sustaining Life and Home
$29.95 Add to cartTwisted Oak is the inspiring, true story of a family seeking a more sustainable life in a complex, technology-driven world. Their journey leads them to build a self-sustaining home and lifestyle in th
- Author: Munroe Pe, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1456629239
- Language: English
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Eco House Book
$49.99 Read moreA complete guide to home improvement the environmentally friendly way: whether you want to redecorate or redesign your home, Terence Conran provides all the information you need to reduce your home’s
- Author: Conran, Terence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1840918365
- Language: English
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Builders of the Pacific Coast
$32.95 Add to cartMeet the DIY builders of the Pacific Coast, whose homes are practical, imaginative, and environmentally friendly.
If you’re fascinated by homes and architecture or if you’re seeking inspiration for you
- Series: Shelter Library of Building Books
- Author: Kahn, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0936070439
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture: Lessons for Building Green from an American Original
$65.00 Add to cartAn unsung prophet of today’s green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision… [more below]
- Author: Weintraub, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0847837963
- Language: English
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Climate Inheritance
$34.95 Read moreClimate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice… [more below]
- Author: Ghosn, Rania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400997
- Language: English
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Essential Cob Construction: A Guide to Design, Engineering, and Building
$49.99 Read moreSetting the standard for modern cob construction – from design, engineering, and building code compliance, to sculpting beautiful structures
Cob – a mix of clay, sand, and straw – is one of the most
- Series: Sustainable Building Essentials
- Author: Dente, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0865719683
- Language: English
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Reclaimed: New Homes from Old Materials
$45.00 Read moreBricks can be cleaned, timber hardens with age, and metal develops a pleasing patina without deteriorating, making them all perfect for reuse. Considering the many options for reusing building materia
- Author: Craswell, Penny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1760763144
- Language: English
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Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism
$65.00 Add to cartHow architects and designers helped define America’s ecological movement in the 1960s–featuring Ant Farm, Buckminster Fuller, John C. Lilly and many more
During the 1960s, as Western notions of endles
- Author: Chan, Carson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1633451542
- Language: English
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Houses That Can Save the World
$34.95 Add to cartNothing short of a design revolution is underway as architects, designers, engineers, self-builders, and artists confront climate change, polluting plastics, global migration, rapidly expanding cities
- Author: Smith, Courtenay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500343713
- Language: English
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Green Architecture
$25.00 Add to cartThe most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discover the best examples of green projects from the Ar
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 3836522209
- Language: English
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Julia Watson. Lo–Tek. Design by Radical Indigenism
$50.00 Add to cartThree hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored loca
- Author: Watson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 3836578182
- Language: English
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The Barefoot Architect
$29.95 Add to cartTake a greener approach to building with this informative, easy-to-follow handbook–more than 200,000 copies sold internationally!
Whether you’re a DIY builder or simply want to understand construction
- Author: Van Lengen, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 28, 2007
- ISBN10: 0936070420
- Language: English
