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Sustainable building design : learning from nineteenth-century innovations

Lerum, Vidar Unknown Rouledge (London, 2016) (eng) English 9780415840743 Unknown Unknown SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE; Unknown Sustainable Building Design explores outstanding buildings and building designs of the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the artistry of masters of architecture who came before. By dissecting and analyzing great public buildings of the nineteenth and twenty-first century, efficient materials, techniques and methods are discovered. This book presents the reader with clues and suggestions that will reveal the secrets of these buildings and in doing so provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how these architectural masterpieces work.
Physical dimension
xv, 252 p. 28 cm. ill.
Summary / review / table of contents

PART I --
1. age of science and technology --
2. Architecture of modernity --
PART II --
3. Winter Palace --
4. Sir John Soane's Museum --
5. Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve --
6. Palace of Westminster --
7. St George's Hall --
8. British Museum Reading Room --
9. University of Glasgow, Gilmorehill --
10. Manchester Town Hall --
11. Natural History Museum --
12. Birmingham Children's Hospital --
PART III --
13. Aldo Leopold Legacy Center --
14. Great River Energy --
15. Terry Thomas --
16. Manitoba Hydro Place --
17. Tempe Transportation Center --
18. NREL Research Support Facility --
19. DPR Construction --
20. Morphosis Studio --
21. Sony Osaki Building --
22. Bullitt Center --
23. Packard Foundation Headquarters --
24. Kimbell Art Museum Extension --
25. Mariposa Land Port of Entry --
26. Billings Public Library --
PART IV --
27. Oregon Sustainability Center --
28. Powerhouse One.

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