Overview
- Makes sustainability the overarching aspect of dwellings’ design thereby highly relevant to solving social challenges
- Offers systematic and structured approach to housing design to cover most important aspects
- Supports and illustrates the concepts by many original diagrams, plans, and photographs
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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About this book
This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.
The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges. Increasing costs of material, labor, land and infrastructure have posed economic challenges with affordability being paramount among them. Social challenges are also drawing the attention of designers, builders and homeowners. Walkable communities, aging in place and multigenerational living are some of the concepts considered. In addition, live-work environments have become part of the economic reality for those who wishto work from home—which has become possible through digital advances.The text would be of interest to scholars working in: architecture, urban planning, and construction.
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About the author
Dr. Friedman’s research interests focus on factors which influence the design and implementation of affordable and sustainable building practices at the unit and community levels, including market acceptance, construction and resource efficiency. For his research, he was awarded the Progressive Architecture Research Award, the J.-Armand-Bombardier Prize for Technological Innovation and the Manning Innovation Award of Distinction.
Avi Friedman has published extensively in both academic and trade publications. He has authored 25 books as well as peer-reviewed articles on subjects ranging from prefabrication and construction technology to suburban planning and space management, for academic journals. He has been invited to address international meetings in most of which he was a Keynote Speaker. Dr. Friedman is a Member of the editorial board of architectural journals and authored research monographs and articles in trade publications in the USA and Canada. He is also a Columnist for several media outlets.
Dr. Friedman’s design work and projects have been cited in many books and have been covered extensively: on TV shows such as Good Morning America, Dream Builders and Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn (British Broadcasting Corporation), in magazines such as Popular Science, Architecture and Home and in newspapers including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Examiner. Avi Friedman has been invited to speak on numerous occasions at meetings of government officials, development authorities, university professors and students, homebuilders, architects and planners in locations as diverse as Dalian, Guadalajara, Prague, Singapore, Berlin and Melbourne. He has received awards for his design and teaching, including the American Institute of Architects Education Honors, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, prestigious Creative Achievement Award, the World Habitat Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction
Authors: Avi Friedman
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35368-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35367-3Published: 27 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35370-3Due: 28 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35368-0Published: 26 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 397
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations, 189 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Building Construction and Design, Public Policy, Arts, Urban Economics