Buildings consume 40% of our planet’s materials and 30% of its energy. Their construction uses up to three million tonnes of raw materials a year and generate

The Ecology of Building Materials explores key questions surrounding sustainability of building materials. It provides technical data to enable design and build

Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.0In doing so, it aims

Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systematising the various ideas which come under the banner of sustainable construction and provides a model for th

Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the power of high-