Design with Climate : : Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism - New and expanded Edition / / Victor Olgyay.

Architects today incorporate principles of sustainable design as a matter of necessity. But the challenge of unifying climate control and building functionality, of securing a managed environment within a natural setting-and combating the harsh forces of wind, water, and sun-presented a new set of o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:New and expanded
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 183 halftones. 173 line illus. 24 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE TO THE 2015 EDITION
  • FROM BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN TO ECO DESIGN
  • THE ROOTS OF BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN
  • A RATIONAL REGIONALISM
  • LEARNING TO DESIGN WITH CLIMATE
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • PART 1. CLIMATIC APPROACH
  • PART 2. INTERPRETATION IN ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES
  • PART 3. APPLICATION
  • APPENDIX A.
  • APPENDIX B.
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
  • INDEX