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Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy
Convergence An Architectural Agenda for Energy Author:Kiel Moe Convergence is based on a seemingly simple and straightforward notion: doing more with less. In our current context of increasing demand for diminishing resources, architects have inevitably begun looking beyond the operation of buildings themselves as the site of sustainability. But how do we achieve doing more with less? And how do we start to... more » understand the full range of ecological issues and principles which need to be engaged with in order to achieve this? Kiel Moe explicates three factors: materials, energy systems and amortization. When these three factors converge through design, the resulting buildings begin to perform in complex, if not subtle, ways. By drawing on a range of architectural, thermodynamic, and ecological sources as well as illustrated and well-designed case studies, the author shows what architects stand to gain through more convergent theories and practices of energy in architecture.« less