Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

If you are interested in passive and sustainable design, this book explains the principles very easily. It also takes it further by breaking down which principles to use in what climates. A new edition of this book is only released once about every ten years, so get your hands on it. My teacher is co-author of the living building challenge, and she was the one who interested me in this book. That is why I had to immediately by the new edition that was released this February. Enjoy, it is no frills easy to understand book that is really geared towards passive design.

This book goes super in depth about sustainability design. Super helpful read for an architecture student and it give a lot of possible design combinations.

This is a primer for all would-be professionals who intend to create built environments economically, efficiently and ecologically.DeKay and Brown have given the profession a superb handbook.

In order to access the electronic content there is a registration code included. You need to login to Wiley's website to enter that code under "new Registration" section. The problem is that the instruction on the card doesn't work if you haven't purchased the book directly from Wiley.com, meaning that there's no "new registration" button available to enter the registration code to access the electronic version.They're not transparent about this and a lot of people don't know the electronic version of the book has different content than the paper book.

This is one of the best books I've seen that address building architectural design considerations that affect heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting. It presents tidbits from real designs, focuses on maximizing the effects of the local climate on the building toward the objective of a comfortable and usable living/working space, and addresses supplemental systems as well. This information presumes a level of knowledge relating to some of these concepts that I don't currently have, making it a pretty hard read in many places. However, the book digs pretty deep into each area, providing enough information to get a good start on a building design. The fusion of engineering and creativity is my favorite feature of this book. It provides insight into creative building designs while also presenting the more quantitative factors necessary to size and evaluate a design for intended use.

Pretty good for pretty cheap. Has multiple ways that designers can evaluate and implement better designs and gives quick explanations. One of the only textbooks I actually kept.

A great textbook for those going into the architecture and design field. It's very useful and I highly recommend it.

The content is great but the book arrived in terrible conditions. As advertised, it's a spiral-bound book yet it was packaged on a envelope instead of a box. The cover arrived broken and most of the pages are excessively bent. Those conditions should not be acceptable for a $100 book.