Eco-Architecture III: Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature (Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

623 Pages·2010·15.26 MB·English

by  S. Hernandez

Eco-Architecture III
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
HARMONISATION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE
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CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN
S. Hernández
University of A Coruña, Spain
C. A. Brebbia
Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
W.P. De Wilde
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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J. Brew J. Quale
G. Broadbent D. Roehr
B. Ceranic T. Shelton
M. Despang A. Sichenze
M.L. Garrison R.E. Smith
B.A. Kazimee J. Stark
J. Laurenz W. Timmermans
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Eco-Architecture III
Harmonisation between
Architecture and Nature
Editors
S. Hernández
University of A Coruña, Spain
C.A. Brebbia
Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
W.P. De Wilde
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium