Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professionals

Books and articles celebrating sustainable or green residential design have become commonplace. Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professionals is different. Written for design professionals, it not only explores the fundamental design principles of sustainable homes, it provides a practical guide to implementing them.

Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professionals 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.

Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professionals features thework of many architects and designers, including the following:

• Ehrlich Architects
• Rick Joy Architects
• Ray Kappe
• Pugh + Scarpa
• Lightroom
• Carter + Burton
• Architectus
• Studio 804
• Auburn's Rural Studio.