High Performance Building

Finally, there s an architect's guide to good, sustainable design that shows how to analyze and evaluate buildings. How Great Buildings Work looks at contemporary architecture to demonstrate the art and craft of designing high performance, energy-efficient buildings. Taking a hands-on view of sustainability, designers learn the analytical approach to investigating how buildings work by looking at ten examples of great architecture. It offers methods used to improve energy performance and user comfort, complete with a series of in-depth case studies demonstrating what works and what does not in notable buildings throughout the world.