Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professionals
Modern Sustainable Residential Design offers a practical guide to integrating sustainability into contemporary residential architecture. William Carpenter combines core design principles with built case studies to show how architects, designers, and builders can move from sustainable concepts to implementation. The book highlights innovative strategies for creating environmentally responsible modern homes.
"The world of residential building is poised to do great things. The guidance, information, materials and technology, while ever-evolving, are in place. Now it's the hearts and minds that must follow. Modern Sustainable Residential Design is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that can help. So let's get started."
—From the Foreword by Allison Arieff, The New York Times "By Design" columnist
Books and articles celebrating sustainable or green residential design have become commonplace. This book is different. Written for design professionals, William Carpenter's Modern Sustainable Residential Design not only explores the fundamental design principles of sustainable homes, it provides a practical guide to implementing them.
This guide offers lessons for architects, interior designers, and builders who want to conceptualize and implement sustainable design strategies in modern residential design. It outlines solutions for incorporating sustainable aspects into a home design from conceptualization to implementation. Detailed design analyses range from groundbreaking contemporary buildings such as Pugh + Scarpa's Solar Umbrella House to Ray Kappe's LivingHome, illuminating some of the most innovative sustainable strategies in the United States and abroad.
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