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Berkeley List of Green Design/Sustainable Architecture Books

Sustainable ABC Green Architecture Book List

 

Nature of Order

A four book essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe

Christopher Alexander

Book I: The Phenomenon of Life

Book II: The Process of Creating Life

Book III: A Vision of A Living World

Book IV: The Luminous Ground

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander

Summary of book: How to make a sustainable community

 

Sustainability and Morphogenesis

The Birth of a Living World

Christopher Alexander

 

Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods

Lynne Elizabeth (Editor), Cassandra Adams (Editor)

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Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age

Ian Abley and James Heartfield, 2001

 

Ecological Design Handbook

Sustainable Strategies for Architecture, Landscape, Architecture, Interior Design, and Planning

Fred A. Stitt, 1999

 

Sustainable Architecture

Sculptures and Natures in Europe and North America

Simon Guy and Steven A. Moore

 

A Green Vitruvius

Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design

1999

 

Sustainable Everyday

Scenarios of Urban Life

Edizioni Ambiente, 2003

 

Album, A Catalogue of Promising Solutions

Workshops of the Research "Sustainable Everyday"

Ezio Manzini and François Jégou, 2003

 

The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design

Sandra F. Mendler and William Odell, 2000

 

Towards Sustainable Building

Nicola Maiellar, 2001

 

ECODESIGN

A Manual for Ecological Design

Wiley-Academy, 2006

 

The Green House

New Directions in Sustainable Architecture

Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne, 2005

 

Alternative Natural Energy Sources in Building Design

Davis and Robert P. Schubert, 1974

 

Architecture in a Climate of Change

Peter Smith

 

 

SPIRITUAL ARCHITECTURE

Building with the Breath of Life

Tom Bender

 

    • Sacred Architecture: Symbolic Form and Ornament Traditions of East and West Models of the Cosmos

Caroline Humphrey

 

Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

Stephen R. Kellert

 

Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design

Ralph Knowles

 

TRAVEL

New World of Travel**

Arthur Frommer, 1998, 400 pages

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