The Passive Solar Energy Book: A Complete Guide to Passive Solar Home, Greenhouse and Building Design

by Edward Mazria

Provides comprehensive information on the design and application of passive solar-energy systems and assesses twenty-seven design patterns that offset a variety of factors influencing the effectiveness of solar heating.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Sustainability

448 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1979

Reviews

[Junio]

The Passive Solar Energy Book was the first book to cover all the aspects of harnessing the sun's energy through the construction and form of the building. The book is all about how to keep a building comfortable in any climate using little or no extra heating or cooling systems.

If you can find a copy of this book for cheap, you don't need to get a newer book on the subject, it goes through the speciffics of measuring the potential solar energy available to a site on any given day of the year including objects that block the sun off site, such as trees and other buildings.

If everyyone read this book, the world would look different.

[Vicky Good]

The way all homes should be built

[Tim]

Ground breaking description of passive solar architecture design principles for the non-engineer. Always worth reading and reviewing, but be sure to follow up with more recent studies (my copy of the book was published in 1979.)

[Mohammed Alshehri]

A good book that could be summarized into 100 pages . Other than that it is very useful for Architectures

[Arch Munkh]

it a good book of architecture