Books written by Colin Porteous

  • Solar Architecture in Cool Climates
    Solar Architecture in Cool Climates

    Wackernagel, M. and Rees, W. (1996) Our Ecological Footprint, New Society Publishers, Canada. Walsh, N. P. (2004) 'Russian vote saves Kyoto protocol', The Guardian, London, 23 October, p20. Wilkes, J. A. (ed) (1988) Encyclopaedia ...

  • The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement
    The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

    Rudolph. Schindler. and. Richard. Neutra. Schindler and Neutra first met in the studio-salon of Adolf Loos in Vienna in ... The fundamental characteristic of transparent glazing is its multi-functionality as an intermediary "d ' 6.16 ...

  • Precedented Environmental Futures: Skin and Substance
    Precedented Environmental Futures: Skin and Substance

    Does the lure of Martin BoyceГs sculpture promote optimistic enquiry as one approaches the threshold obliquely from east or west up Renfrew Street? widening the issue of HollГs poetic soundYbites to another of his buildings, ...

  • The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement
    The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

    By setting today's green architectural quest within a twentieth century context, and evaluating the main protagonists with regard to a modern eco-sensitive lineage, the book will be of primary interest to architectural students, academics ...

  • Solar Architecture in Cool Climates
    Solar Architecture in Cool Climates

    The text is enlivened through direct experience of case studies from Europe and North America dealing with new-build, retrofitting and conceptual projects that outline future potential (the principles being equally applicable to equivalent ...