Sustainaspeak

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A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms

By Elizabeth Lewis

Summary

Sustainaspeak is a comprehensive guide to over two hundred essential terms in sustainable design, providing clear definitions and sources for easy reference. It helps decode the complex and evolving language of environmentally friendly architecture, including concepts like Biophilic Design, Circular Economy, LEED, and Solar Chimney. The book is richly illustrated with examples of award-winning sustainable buildings, showcasing work from renowned firms such as Behnisch and KieranTimberlake.
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Ideal for designers, architects, students, and community leaders interested in sustainable and carbon-neutral design strategies for shaping a better future.

Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations.

Description

Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping.

What does it all mean?

The complex and evolving language used in the sustainable design community can be very challenging, particularly to those new to environmentally friendly and resource-efficient design strategies that are needed today.

Definitions of over two hundred terms with further sources. Clearly cross-referenced with Sustainaspeak, Theoryspeak, and Archispeak terms. Illustrated throughout with sustainable award-winning buildings by architects such as Behnisch, Brooks + Scarpa, EHDD, KieranTimberlake, Lake|Flato, Leddy Mahtum Stacy, SmithGroup, Perkins+Will, ZGF, VMDO, and McDonough + Partners.

Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms, and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138283336

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 February 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 31 Line drawings, black and white; 48 Halftones, black and white; 79 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 330

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About the Author

Elizabeth Lewis, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor at Florida A&M University School of Architecture, USA, has over twenty-five years of design teaching experience with a research focus on high-performing and net-zero buildings. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she is active in the profession and AIA leadership, a founder of USGBC Florida Capital Region Chapter, and a contributor to Decoding Theoryspeak.