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New Books on Green Building
Reviews of four new books on sustainable home construction and net-zero buildings
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Pastiche Architecture
Is it Victorian, Gothic, Colonial, Baroque — or just bad design?
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Origami-Inspired Homes
When designers create sprawling houses with multiple bump-outs, it’s difficult for builders to create an uninterrupted air barrier
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Using the Pen Test for Control Layers
It’s an invaluable tool for architects and contractors
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A House For Slow Living
Is it possible to marry the romantic associations of an old-fashioned farmhouse with a high-performance building envelope?
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On Trying To Do the Right Thing
Ready to get started on his new house, a homeowner wonders about his obligations to his design-build firm
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Solving Our Design Problems
Our new house needed an addition, but we didn’t want the addition to be too big
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A Passivhaus Doesn’t Have to Look Weird
Everyone involved with this residential project in Maryland is doing their best to achieve the rigorous Passivhaus airtightness standard
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A Post-Passivhaus Paradigm for Energy-Efficient Design
In hot, humid climates, the most important HVAC design variable is the latent load
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An Update on the Pretty Good House — Part 1
A commonsense approach to designing and building a green home