Architecture: Architecture and Sustainability

When searching the Libraries Search, the online Libraries Search, try the following Library of Congress subject headings:

• Architecture and Energy Conservation
• Architecture Environmental Aspects
• Sustainable Architecture

Resources on architecture and sustainability can also be located using more specific subject terms such as:

• Solar Energy
• Wind Power
• Geothermal Engineering

• Applied Science & Technology Full Text

  Indexes international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology. Areas covered include engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-related disciplines.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

  The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.
• GreenFILE

  GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. I

• Green Home Building

  Includes a range of information related to sustainable architecture and natural building including code information.
• Green Home Guide

  advice on green remodeling
• Home Energy Magazine

  Issues from 1993-1994 online
• New SEED Standard Introduced

• Energy Design Tools
• Federal Building Energy Codes

  US Department of Energy
• Green Building Council
• Indoor Air Quality (EPA)

  Various documents
• LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

  From the US Green Building Council, a rating system and "consensus based national standard" for sustainable buildings.
• US Department of Energy Building Standards & Guidelines program

  Information on codes and products

• Building Green

  INformation on green buildings, products, and technologies
• California's Green Building Code 
• Energy Design Resources  

  software tools and information resources, includes case studies
• Green Design and Sustainable Architecture Resources (UC Berkeley LIbrary)
• Smart Communities Network

  Information and topics on sustainability
• Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Series (University of Minnesota)

  The goal of the SULIS is to provide sustainable landscape information to the public and to the horticulture/landscape industry. By utilizing SULIS concepts, homeowners, business owners and related industry personnel will be able to create outdoor spaces that are functional, maintainable, environmentally sound, cost effective and aesthetically pleasing.
• Sustainable Building Resources

  Information, links. and resources on sustainable building
• Sustainable Communities Online

  News, highlights, and information on sustainable practices within communities
• Terrain: A Journal of the Built Environment
• Tree Hugger

4F, Bird Library

Moon Library, ESF Campus

Bay, Joo-Hwa and Boon-Lay Ong. Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Social and Environmental Dimensions. Burlington, MA : Architectural Press, 2006.

Cantor, Steven L. Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Smith, Carl. Residential Landscape Sustainability: A Checklist Tool. Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Wines, James. Green Architecture. New York: Taschen, 2000.

Carnegie Library

Internet Resources

Greensource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies. 2008-2011

Call Number: NA2542.36 .G737 (ceased, Bird Library)

Journal of Green Building. Glen Allen, Virginia. 2006-

Call Number: TH880 .J68 (Current issues are in King + King Architecture Library and older issues are in library facility)

Sustainability. [Electronic resource- UK]  [Electronic resource-US] New Rochelle: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

The 2030 Challenge Environmental Design in the Face of Climate Change Discussion Panel. Las Vegas, Nevada: UNLV School of Architecture, 2007.

Call Number: Video DVD 13063

The Greening of Southie. [videorecording]. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films, [2008].

Call Number: Video DVD 14187

• Arcosanti - Paolo Soleri

  An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, based on Paolo Soleri's concept of "arcology" (architecture and ecology). It is projected to house 7,000 people and demonstrate ways to improve urban conditions and lessen our environmental impact.
• BRE Environmental Assessment Method - Case Studies

  BREEAM is the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, with 200,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and over a million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990.

• Arizona Solar Center

  Explores various technologies, including photovoltaics, solar cooking, solar water heating, solar architecture, wind power, and hands on classroom activities
• Solar Decathlon

  Competition in which 20 teams of cleege and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractice, effective, and energy-efficient solar powered house.
• Solar Design Associate Decathlon 

  projects and services
• Solar Energy Industries Associaion

  Research, products, and information about solar-oriented sustainable practices
• Solar Resource Information

  Dada, codes, calculators, publications, links
• Sun Angle Calculator

  online calculator and diagrams

• American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

  broad-based energy concerns
• Architecture 2030

  non profit, independent organization whose mission is to rapidly transform the U.S. and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the climate change, energy consumption, and economic crises.
• Athena Institute
• Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

  Green Roof Infrastructure Industry Association
• Second Nature - Education for Sustainability
• Winter Cities Institute

  organization providing information on cold-weather sustainability

• Building Research Establishment

  BRE literature, specific initiatives such as the Energy Efficient Office BUilding Best Practice Programme, research programme (under construction), and links to other organizations. "The BRE is the principal organisation in the United Kingdom carrying out research into building and construction and the prevention and control of fire. BRE is an Executive Agency of the UK Government's Department of the Environment."
• Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR), UC Berkeley
• Center for Maximum Building Potential Systems
• Context Institute

  nonprofit research organization exploring and clarifying what is involved in a human sustainable culture. building and habitat issues
• Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy Network

  Information on EREN and links to energy and other resources
• Environmental Energy Technologies Division (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  Research on energy technologies; includes sections on indoor/outdoor air quality and buildings energy efficiency
• Green Building Research Center (GBRC), UC Berkeley

  Created in 2004 to advance and promote sustainable building design and operation on the UC Berkeley campus
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  Under "Research in Progress" you find the NREL publications database and information about the various divisions including teh Photoviltaic Division and the Buildings and Energy Systems Division. Under "Information Sources/NREL Information Systems" find the solar radiation data and maps, wind energy resources maps, and more