Energy-Efficient Architecture
Subtitle: Basics for Planning and Construction
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: April 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783764372538
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; Methods & Materials; Design & Drafting; Architecture; Environmental engineering; Planning; Sustainable/Environmental; Architecture / General; Buildings; Architecture And Energy Conservation; Energy conservation
First sentence: "In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects ..."(1) With his famous treatise Ten Books on Architecture, Vitruvius created an early cornerstone for a tradition of architecture and urban design.