Publications
Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life
Smart Homes and Communities
Fostering Sustainable Architecture
Avi Friedman. 2018
Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future
Re-Thinking the Box: Net-Zero Capable Housing.
Timothy McDonald. Routledge Press, NY, NY.
Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance
The prestigious Emerging Voices Award was created in 1982 by the Architectural League of New York to showcase the work of North American architects. Emerging Voices 30 documents and critically assesses the first three decades of the League's Emerging Voices program.
The Architectural League of New York. Princeton Architectural Press.
The Greenest Home
The Greenest Home showcases eighteen of the world's most attractive Passive Houses by forward-thinking architects such as Bernheimer Architecture, Olson Kundig Architects, and Onion Flats.
Julie Torees-Moskovitz. Princeton Architectural Press.
Modern American Housing
High-Rise, Reuse, Infill
Peggy Tully. Princeton Architectural Press.
American Passive House Developments
Over the last two years, architects and builders have scaled up and branched out, constructing the next generation of Passive House buildings, including large multifamily, mixed-use, and commercial buildings—and often at no or a very small cost premium.
Mary James. Low Carbon Productions
azero 2226: Comfort SENZA IMPIANTI
The Italian architecture magazine AZERO EdicomEdizioni has written an article about the Belfield Townhomes project.
Edicom Edizioni, AZERO, Vol 12, pp. 44-49. June 2014
From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes
In From the Ground Up, editor Peggy Tully presents the results of an international competition to create new models for affordable high-performance green homes in urban residential neighborhoods.
Peggy Tully. Princeton Architectural Press. October 2012
Grey Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation
Using the Philadelphia region as a point of departure—but encouraging regional, national and global perspectives—Gray Area considered preservation in light of new economic realities, demographic shifts, technological changes, environmental pressures, and fast-changing factors.
Elise Vider. October 2011
Eco Urban Design
Eco-Urban Design focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources, and an increasing global population have become facts of life, there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger fragile ecological systems.
John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith. Springer. August 2011
21st Century Sustainable Homes
Features lush color photographs of visually spectacular and environmentally-friendly architecture, and showcases detailed plans and descriptions of each house and its sustainable elements.
Mark Cleary, Images Publishing Dist Ac. July 2011
HOCO Density Housing Construction and Costs
A comparative analysis of 32 collective housing projects with particular emphasis on the study and comparison of construction systems along the with a detailed cost analysis of each featured project.
Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Mozas, Javier Arp. a+t architecture publishers. December 2009
Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model
This book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing. Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats proposals and contemporary work, by innovative designers such as Anderson Anderson, Koning Eizenberg, Office dA, Onion Flats, Zoka Zola, Pyatok, and more.
Susanne Schindler, William R. Morrish. William Stout. November 2009
Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City
Philadelphia Architecture provides descriptions and photographs of over 400 of the city’s important buildings. With seven walking tours, historical timelines, and short biographies of Philadelphia architects, the book will appeal to visitors, residents, and architecture enthusiasts.
John Andrew Gallery. Paul Dry Books. July 2009
Green Living by Design
Filled with easy, insider tips on everything from insulation, carpentry, lighting, and complete renovations to simple projects like redecorating; it’s the source for anyone who wants their home to be chic and eco-friendly.
Jean Nayar. Filipacchi Publishing. Forward By: Tim McDonald. May 2009