150 Best New Eco Home Ideas by none
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability | Series: 150 Best
Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles. Architects, designers, and homeowners today looki ...Show more
Energy by Jon Clift
$14.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability | Series: Green Books Guides
Did you know that: our demand for electricity grows by about 3 per cent every year? Just lowering the temperature of your thermostat by 1 degree Celcius can reduce your energy bill by 10 per cent? Energy-efficient light bulbs last about 12 times longer than ordinary bulbs, and each one will save you abo ...Show more
Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability | Series: Architecture and Interior Design Ser.
A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), ...Show more
Minimalista: Your step-by-step guide to a better home, wardrobe and life by Shira Gill
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
***"I identified with so many of the important lessons Shira teaches in Minimalista. Now I'll know what book to recommend when people ask me to help them on their journey towards minimalism!" - Garance Doré, New York Times Best Selling Author of Love Style LifeElevate your personal style, trim your belo ...Show more
Munro Court Story by Turner,Sue
$27.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability
The book describes the process of an eight-house development in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. It also lists the indigenous Australian plants that form the garden surrounding the houses. It contains photos of the houses and the plants.
Earth Render by Alanna Moore
$36.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability
Rendering or plastering is a craft as old as house building, the basic methods and concepts having changed little over time. This book offers a detailed look at the use of raw earth for painting and rendering walls in new as well as in existing buildings, focusing on sand-clay render, straw-clay render ...Show more
Green Architecture Now!: v. 1 by Philip Jodidio
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
How green is your blueprint? This title looks at architecture as sustainable technology. The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings; in an era of rocketing energy costs ...Show more
Fallingwater by Lynda S. Waggoner
$80.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability
A landmark volume to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning new photography commissioned especially for this book, Fallingwater captures the much loved masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright foll ...Show more
Residential Eco Homes by EDITORS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
This book includes a carefully chosen collection of over 60 projects whose ecological, sustainable or bioclimatic designs make them the most cutting edge homes on today's residential architectural stage. Bioclimatic diagrams, photographs and specific plans are used to show that sustainability can live h ...Show more
Local Sustainable Homes - How to Make Them Happen in Your Community by Chris Bird
$33.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability | Series: The\Local Ser.
While politicians talk about sustainable housing, thousands of individuals, groups, and organizations are busy putting ideas into practice, now pushing the boundaries to cut carbon emissions far beyond government targets. Where are the examples we can all learn from, and how are they bringing sustainabl ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He sho ...Show more
Vitamin Green by Phaidon Editors
$89.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability | Reading Level: very good
Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape ar ...Show more