Form Follows Energy: Using natural forces to maximize performance - Hardcover

Cody, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3990432028 ISBN 13: 9783990432020

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2017

Synopsis

Architecture is energy. Lines drawn on paper to represent architectural intentions also imply decades and sometimes centuries of associated energy and material flows.

Form Follows Energy is about the relationship between energy and the form of our built environment. It examines the optimisation of energy flows in building and urban design and the implications for form and configuration. It speaks to both architectural and engineering audiences and offers for the first time a truly interdisciplinary overview on the subject, explaining the complex relationships between energy and architecture in an easy to follow manner and using simple diagrams to show how energy design strategies can be used to maximize the energy performance of our built environment, while at the same time leading to new aesthetic qualities and radically new forms in architecture and urban design. Case studies are used to illustrate the theory.

The books philosophy is based on the guiding principles underlying nearly 30 years work in practice, research and teaching. It is relatively easy to make something simple seem complicated. To make a complex topic seem simple and easily understandable is far more of a challenge and this is the aim of this book.

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About the Authors

Prof. Brian Cody

Head of Institute of Buildings and Energy, Technical University of Graz, Austria

Prof. Brian Cody

Leiter des Instituts für Gebäude und Energie, TU Graz

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3990432028
• ISBN 13: 9783990432020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280