Form Follows Energy: Using Natural Forces to Maximize Performance

By Brian Cody

Book Overview

Efficient use of energy

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. 　

Interdisciplinary illustration of the relationship between energy and architecture Case studies using practical examples by internationally renowned architects Hand-drawn diagrams facilitate understanding

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035614059
• ISBN13: 9783035614053
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary