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Architecture and Systems Ecology - Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts (Hardcover)
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Architecture and Systems Ecology - Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts (Hardcover)
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Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more
efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system
engendered by the power of high-quality fuels. A comprehensive
method of environmental design must reconcile the techniques of
efficient building design with the radical urban and economic
reorganization that we face. Over the coming century, we will be
challenged to return to the renewable resource base of the
eighteenth-century city with the knowledge, technologies, and
expectations of the twenty-first-century metropolis. This book
explores the architectural implications of systems ecology, which
extends the principles of thermodynamics from the
nineteenth-century focus on more efficient machinery to the
contemporary concern with the resilient self-organization of
ecosystems. Written with enough technical material to explain the
methods, it does not include in-text equations or calculations,
relying instead on the energy system diagrams to convey the
argument. Architecture and Systems Ecology has minimal technical
jargon and an emphasis on intelligible design conclusions, making
it suitable for architecture students and professionals who are
engaged with the fundamental issues faced by sustainable design.
The energy systems language provides a holistic context for the
many kinds of performance already evaluated in architecture-from
energy use to material selection and even the choice of building
style. It establishes the foundation for environmental principles
of design that embrace the full complexity of our current
situation. Architecture succeeds best when it helps shape,
accommodate, and represent new ways of living together.
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