Product Description: You'll find clear instructions on how to design, build and use a green sustainable architecture in Ecodesign. Author Ken Yeang will show you how to produce and maintain ecosystem-like structures and systems whose content and outputs not only integrate benignly with the natural environment, but whose built form and systems function with sensitivity to the locality's ecology as well in relation to global biospheric processes...read more

Product Description: This book examines the competition submissions for a new suburban centre located on the edge of tropical Penang in Malaysia. Prestigious international firms OMA, Morphosis, Asymptote Architecture, Atelier Seraji, Gruntuch Ernst Architekten, Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop, and Michael Sorkin Studio were each paired with a local architecture practice to participate in the invitation-only competition sponsored by the Equine Group...read more

Product Description: This book is invaluable to the reader interested in tall buildings, to architects and engineers seeking a new approach for their design and to investors and developers seeking to create more marketable and habitable high-rise dwellings and skyscraper commercial spaces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Detail in Building series is an essential source of contemporary data covering the key elements of building design that form the vocabulary of current architecture. Previous titles include Staircases, Soft Canopies, Glass Canopies, Columns, Cable Nets and Wind Towers, and a publication on Balconies is currently in preparation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book aims to establish a strategy for sustainable design, and for understanding the decisions that need to be made in the design of a complex building type such as the skyscraper. The author presents a general framework for looking at ecological design, a step-by-step guide to examining the fundamental premises of such an approach as well as its practical applications to the contemporary skyscraper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A compelling preview of the world of the twenty-first-century city dweller can be seen in the visionary work of an architect whose bioclimatic approach to skyscraper design sets new standards for high-rise construction. This comprehensive monograph examines the design elements that characterize Yeang's famous "green skyscrapers": low-energy, passive techniques for lighting and heating, environmentally friendly materials for facades and interiors, well-planned pedestrian linkages, public zones, innovative multiple-use areas, and stunning vistas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ken Yeang is an inventive and prolific archi tect working mainly in Southeast Asia. Based on bioclimatic architecture, Hamzah Yeang''s buildings are energy-efficient, utilising the natural forces of the environment. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This timely and incisive book offers the first truly comprehensive framework for designing buildings that work with nature. Presenting a compelling case for ecological design, it provides architects and designers with a full understanding of the impact that their built works have on the natural environment, as well as what can be done to mitigate the damage to a building site and its natural resources...read more

Product Description: Provides insights into building in the urban context of South-East Asia, explaining how local factors such as climate and culture influence design decisions. The author gives a critical view and defines the basis for a regionalist approach.