Wiley Book Shortlisted for the RIBA Awards 2008

Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning by Daniel Williams has been shortlisted for the Architectural Practice Category for the RIBA book awards 2008, held next week in London on the 28th May.

Sustainable Design challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology.

Comprehensive in scope, Sustainable Design answers key questions such as:

How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically?

What is the difference between "green design" and "sustainable design"?

What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost?

Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work.

Williams's book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.

About the author:
Daniel E. Williams, FAIA, a Seattle-based architect and urban planner, is a nationally recognized expert in sustainable architecture and planning. Williams was the 2003 chair of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE), and he chaired the AIA Sustainable Task Group in 2006. His projects, which range from residences to regional plans, connect ecology, economic development, transportation, agriculture, education, and natural resource protection.

Hardback; £39.99/€50.00; ISBN: 978-0-471-70953-4

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