A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture. After a century of building designs characterized by high energy demand; low quality lighting and poor thermal comfort; the fundamental questions must be asked again: is there a better path to designing the most energy efficient; comfortable; functional and beautiful buildings for a sustainable future? While seeking solutions for the future; are there lessons to be learned from the best buildings of the past?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 centuries; materials; techniques; and methods are discovered. This book presents the reader with clues and suggestions that will reveal the secrets of these buildings and by doing so provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how these architectural masterpieces work. Using photographs; drawings; sections; plans and diagrams which are painstakingly redrawn for consistency and clarity based on a wide range of documentation; Vidar Lerum compares works of architecture from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is presented with a careful analysis of each building; providing a compelling sourcebook of ideas for students and professional architects alike.
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