Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

Even diehard Instagrammers admit it: Sometimes the best design is in what you don’t see. Such is the case with passive solar design, an approach to building that—in a nutshell—uses a house’s site, ...

Switch to solar with a system built for you. There isn’t a strict definition for what makes a home "solar" — it just has to use energy from the sun in some capacity. If you’re building a new home, it ...

Don’t underestimate a passive house just because of the name. These energy-efficient houses—which first originated in Germany in the 1990s—are becoming increasingly popular thanks to the many benefits ...

As revolutionary as the construction sector may seem nowadays, it currently accounts for nearly 40% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, 11% of which are a result of manufacturing building ...

Inventor of the “the solar envelope” concept, Ralph Lewis Knowles died in Cleveland on August 23, 2024. He was 95 years old. News of his passing was shared by the USC School of Architecture. Knowles ...

“A few people felt that only so much could be said about adobe.” This quote, from an adobe building magazine achieving its one-year anniversary in 1975, forms an epigraph to the introduction to Albert ...