Sustainable Living by Dominique Gauzin-Müller (Birkhäuser 2006) presents 25 international examples of innovative and ecological residential architecture.
Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainability has come to the fore in the building industry as well as elsewhere. It requires the use of intelligent technology, innovative structures, ecologically sound materials, and environment-related energy management. This development is particularly vigorous in the residential sphere, since we now see a growing sensitivity to quality of life and accommodation: people increasingly insist on healthy indoor atmosphere, natural humidity balance, thermal comfort, and daylighting.
This book offers a thorough and technically detailed documentation of 25 sustainable residential structures, both in the high-tech and low-tech domain. the individual projects differ greatly in size an din the materials used. The examples are chosen from 18 countries on all five continents and are located both in rural and urban areas.
– Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Sustainable Living (Birkhäuser, 2006), book description
The text is in English. The book is richly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some tiny traces of shelf wear.
