SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Convection Heat Transfer, Fourth Edition
Adrian Bejan
In the revised edition of the industry classic, Convection Heat Transfer, Fourth Edition, Adrian Bejan chronicles how the field of heat transfer has grown and prospered over the last two decades. One of the foremost leaders in the field, Bejan describes how convection affects performance, and how convective flows can be configured so that performance is enhanced. He describes the evolution of convective configurations, from the flat plates, smooth pipes, and single-dimension fins of the earlier editions to new populations of configurations: tapered ducts, plates with multiscale features, dendritic fins, duct and plate assemblies (packages) for heat transfer density and compactness, and provides quantitative support for the qualitative analysis from his own research.
Sun, Wind, and Light is a “how to” book for use in design stage. Its purpose is to help architects integrate architectural design and energy, to design more energy efficient buildings, while also making humane, sustainable, aesthetic buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources. This book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. Brown provides the latest passive energy and lighting design research organized architectural elements at three scales building groups, individual buildings, and building parts. Created for practicing architects, Sun, Wind and Light brings design strategies to life with examples and practical design tools.
Sun, Wind, and Light
G. Z. Brown
Materials for Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings
Ed. M. Hall
Materials for energy efficiency and thermal comfort in buildings critically reviews the advanced building materials applicable for improving the built environment. Divided into three parts, the compilation first reviews both fundamental building physics and occupant comfort in buildings, considering heat and mass transport, hygrothermal behaviour, ventilation, thermal comfort and health and safety requirements. Part two details the development of advanced materials and sustainable technologies for application in buildings, beginning with a review of lifecycle assessment and environmental profiling of materials and concluding a review of modern methods of construction for optimised building thermal performance. A great resource for an indepth review of material properties.
Thermal Delight in Architecture
Lisa Heschong
Thermal Delight in Architecture takes an innovative approach to the study of the thermal aspects of architecture - temperature and humidity. Heschong focuses on the social, emotional and experiential significance of the thermal through a historic and cultural lens as compared to the typical technical approach. She explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design rather than the historically favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal environment. She suggests a new approach to architectural design, where thermal aspects are not treated with neglect and contempt but are used to enrich the experience of the inhabitant both physically and emotionally.
Climate Responsive Design
Richard Hyde
Climate Responsive Design provides a unique source for students and practicing architects requiring guidance on climatic design. Covering theory and application it provides examples of innovative and best practice in 'responsive architecture' through case studies. The book also covers the broader topic of technology as a generator in design which will be of interest to all those involved in design and building. The book focuses on tropical climate but some of the theory can be applied to other climates; the difference in application is clearly delineated.
Convergence
Kiel Moe
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. Kiel Moe considers three factors: materials, energy systems and amortization and the effect on performance as these three factors converge through design. By drawing on a range of architectural, thermodynamic, and ecological sources as well as illustrated and well-designed case studies, the author shows what architecture stands to gain by simultaneously maximizing the architectural and ecological power of buildings.
Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture
Kiel Moe
In the architecture profession's ongoing quest for sustainability, it is often the most fundamental practices that require rethinking. Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture, the groundbreaking new study by 2009 Rome Prize-winning architect Kiel Moe, argues that water, with its higher density, is far better at capturing and channeling energy than air. By separating the heating and cooling of a building from its ventilation, the building's structure itself becomes the primary thermal system. This transformation of energy and building practices triggers a cascading set of possibilities for a building's health, structure, and durability. The first and only book of its kind, Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture details ten contemporary case studies, from some of today's most innovative architects.
Terror from the Air
Peter Sloterdijk
Terror from the Air is a book that, once read, seeps into the thoughts in unexpected places and at unexpected times. It becomes pervasive, unavoidable, much like its subject matter: gas and the atmosphere. Peter Sloterdijk’s eye-catching premise for this book is that the 20th century dawned in a “spectacular revelation” on 22 April1915. On that date, in the midst of the First World War, French-Canadian troops in the northern Ypres salient were attacked using chlorine, the first instance of gas warfare in history. In that act, modernity was born. He traces the use of environmental weapons where the assault is not the enemy’s body but his environment. Industrialization and modernism continue the attack and the architectural efforts to control against the assault has resulted in the climate controlled air conditioned of modern design.
Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture is a theoretical work on the body and social architecture. Sven-Olov Wallenstein traces the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation.
Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture
Sven-Olov Wallenstein