This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildi
This book introduces recent advances in building simulation and outlines its historic development. Two important topics are described: uncertainty in simulation and coupled simulations, which are both
Building simulation, which began to be recognized as a discipline in the 1970s, has grown in complexity and breadth with every year. Editors Malkawi (architecture, U. of Pennsylvania) and Augenbroe (a