Sustainability & Green Design
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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
$37.00 Read moreImagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and com… [more below]
- Author: Sim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642830186
- Language: English
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Julia Watson. Lo–Tek. Water. a Field Guide for Teknology
$60.00 Add to cartPlunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This spell-binding book reveals how Indigenous innovations–like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge syste
- Author: Watson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: December 21 2025
- ISBN10: 3836594447
- Language: English
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Earthen Floors, Second Edition: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice
$49.99 Add to cartThe essential guide to making, installing and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors – now fully revised and updated
This full-color guide includes complete step-by-step instructions for in
- Author: Crimmel, Sukita Reay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1774060086
- Language: English
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Designing Futures: Speculation, Critique, Innovation
$45.00 Add to cartThe ability to imagine different possible futures and the will to influence the course of events are deeply human. These ideas about the future can also determine which of the many possible futures wi… [more below]
- Author: Mandir, Eileen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1529435056
- Language: English
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A Moratorium on New Construction
$22.00 Add to cartA massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. Fr- Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
- Author: Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1915609003
- Language: English
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Houses Natural/Natural Houses
$65.00 Add to cartA seductive, stylish, compelling, and authoritative assembly of vanguard small-scale houses that tread very lightly in nature, leading the way for architects, homeowners, and dreamers to rethink ways … [more below]
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 084783431X
- Language: English
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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
$16.95 Read moreWhether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative,
- Author: Papanek, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296197
- Language: English
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Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia
$39.95 Read moreThis book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and … [more below]
- Author: Kallipoliti, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1638400733
- Language: English
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Power of Landscape: Novel Narratives to Engage with the Energy Transition
$60.00 Read moreHow renewable energy technologies can transform our landscape for the better
The energy transition is in full swing: across the globe, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. But
- Author: Stremke, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9462087164
- Language: English
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Essential Building Science: Understanding Energy and Moisture in High Performance House Design
$39.99 Read moreDown and dirty – a complete step-by-step guide to making, installing and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors
Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable,
- Series: Sustainable Building Essentials #3
- Author: Racusin, Jacob Deva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0865718342
- Language: English
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Container Architecture: Modular, Pre Fab, Affordable, Movable and Sustainable Living
$55.00 Read moreThe ultimate in sustainable architecture, containers provide a cheap and resilient building material with a myriad of possible applications. Modular, these self contained units are easy to attach to a… [more below]
- Author: Bach, David Andreu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 8499366627
- Language: English
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Sustainable Architecture: Contemporary Architecture in Detail
$45.00 Read moreIn the architecture world, sustainability has evolved from an optional feature into an urgent necessity. Now in paperback, this publication presents 25 building projects from around the world that ran
- Author: The Plan, The Plan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 841765643X
- Language: English
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Neri Oxman: Material Ecology
$50.00 Read moreThe first survey on the interdisciplinary biodesign genius of Neri Oxman, pioneer of “material ecology
Throughout her 20-year career, Neri Oxman has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings
- Author: Oxman, Neri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1633451054
- Language: English
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Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind
$34.95 Read moreA beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.
Design for Resilience is a t- Author: Walker, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048094
- Language: English
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How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool
$45.00 Read moreNatural swimming pools are the biggest news for gardeners since green roofs. The water is cleaned by aquatic plants instead of chlorine so it is gentle on the eyes and healthy for swimmers. These self… [more below]
- Author: Kircher, Wolfram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 099338921X
- Language: English
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Eco Living Japan: Sustainable Ideas for Living Green
$14.99 Read moreEco Living Japan presents the contemporary Japanese homes which best exemplify the recent trends in sustainable design and green architecture in Japan.
Japan is equally as well known for its ecologica- Author: MacDonald, Deanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0804850399
- Language: English
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The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate
$34.99 Read moreIn The New Carbon Architecture, discover biomimicry-inspired innovations in construction – from wooden cities to mycelium insulation – that pull carbon from the atmosphere, heal the climate, and produ
- Author: King, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0865718687
- Language: English
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The House of Green
$75.00 Add to cartIn the search for the sweet spot where nature and modern-day living meet, The House of Green delivers solutions for a perfect blend of both worlds.
Longing for nature is no strange feeling for anyone.
- Author: Gestalten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 3967041409
- Language: English
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A-Frame: New Concept
$30.95 Read moreA-Frame constructions emerged in the mid-20th century and have been forgotten for decades. In recent years we are seeing how the spirit of A-Frame style houses is gradually being revived by avant-gard… [more below]
- Author: Minguet, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 8417557644
- Language: English
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Environmental Activism by Design
$35.00 Read moreEnvironmental Activism by Design, a monograph by architects and educators Coleman Coker and Sarah Gamble, challenges designers to actively engage the environmental crisis through their work, while art… [more below]
- Author: Coker, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081790
- Language: English
