Essential Reading List

Designing for the Climate Emergency: A guide for architecture students by Sofie Pelsmakers et al (Student Library)

The Environmental Design Pocketbook by Sofie Pelsmakers 720.47 (P) (Student Library)

101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture by Huw Heywood AR 720.472 (H) (Student Library)

​The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Norman 620.82 (N)

Eco-minimalism the Antidote to Eco-bling by Howard Liddell 720.47 (L)

The Re-use Atlas by Duncan Baker - Brown (Student Library)

How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand AR 720.1 (B)

Sustainable by Design by Stuart Walker AR 745.2 (W)

Emotionally Durable Design by Jonathan Chapman AR 658.5752 (C)

Targeting Zero by Simon Sturgis 720.47 (S)

Positive Development by Janis Birkeland (Student Library) 333.7315 (B)

The Whole Building Handbook by Varis Bokalders and Maria Block (Student Library)

The Environmental Brief by Richard Hyde, Steve Wastson, Wendy Cheshire and Mark Thomson (Student Library) AR Q 720.47 (E)]

Climate and Architecture by Torben Dahl Western Bank Library AR Q 720.47 (C)

Elements of Sustainable Architecture by Rosa urbano Gutierrez and Laura de la plaza Hidalgo [Not in Library]

Strategies for sustainable architecture by Paola Sassi Western Bank Library AR 720.47 (S) (Available Online)

Taking Shape - A New Contract between Architecture and Nature by Susannah Hagan (Student Library)

Architecture and Resilience on Human Scale - Cross-disciplinary conference, Sheffield, 10-12 September 2015 Western Bank Library AR Q 720.47 (A)

Eco - Homes by Jenny Pickerill (Student Library)

Low Impact Living by Pail Chatterton (Student Library)

Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes by Tom Dollard (Student Library)

UK Housing: Fit for the Future? by Climate Change Committee

The Ecology of Building Materials by Berge (Student Library)

The Hempcrete Book: Designing and building with hemp-lime by Alex Sparrow (Student Library)

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy by David Cheshire

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough

The Architecture of Waste: Design for a Circular Economy ed. by Caroline O'Donnell and Dillon Pranger

The Circular Economy Challenge: Towards a Sustainable Development ed. by Alessia Amato (Student Library)

RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Guide Sustainability by Sandy Halliday 720.47 (H)

RIBA Sustainability Outcomes 2019

RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

Donut Economics by Kate Raworth 330 (R)

The Green Imperative by Victor Papanek

Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot 306.2(M) (Student Library)

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make Or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee 

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers 

Sustainable Construction by Sandy Halliday (Available Online)

People Powered Retrofit (Available Online)