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Exciting new daylighting techniques for architectural design!Just as natural light reveals colors in a richer, truer spectrum, daylighting opens new perspectives for architectural design. Daylighting for Sustainable Design, by noted architectural thinker Mary Guzowski, gives you practical design strategies that create a brighter, greener architecture by weaving together environmental, architectonic, and humanistic factors. Daylighting encompasses sensitive land-use, energy conservation, the use of healthy materials, and waste-reduction; design, technological and mechanical factors; aesthetics and quality of life issues. This stimulating resource helps you adapt daylighting to your own work with... *color illustrations that bring techniques vividly to life *case studies that illustrate how each principle can be implemented *checklist and design approach summaries *guides to daylighting resources, manufacturers, and specialist firmsEditorials
Booknews
Daylighting here is not what musicians do for steady income, but bringing natural light into buildings. Guzowski (architecture, U. of Minnesota) describe principles and techniques that link the approach to enhancing a design environmentally, architectonically, and humanistically. She looks at bioregionality, design for evolution, shape guides flow, appropriate technology, health and well being, lessons from nature, quality of life, and other aspects. She includes hundreds of illustrations in color and black-and-white, international examples, and a list of professional resources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 11, 1999
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Pages
448
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780070254398