Bioclimatic housing : innovative designs for warm climates / edited by Richard Hyde. - London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, c2008. - xxxvi, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Redefining bioclimatic housing - Part 2: Location, climate types and building response - Part III: Principles, elements and technologies - Appendix: International enercy agency solar heating and cooling programme task 28 on solar sustainable housing: annex - Index.

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Ecological houses.
Solar houses.
Architecture and climate.
Vernacular architecture.
Temperate climate.
Arid regions.
Construction industry--Appropriate technology.
Global warming.


Tropics--Climate.

720.47 / BIO