XS Green

'A host of wonderfully esoteric projects ... what this book shows above all is that true innovation is alive and well in architecture' - Grand Designs 'Accessible, inspiring and full of great images that will get the reader thinking' - Architecture Today What does it mean to be green? This book, a follow-up to the cult hit XS, is a celebration of idiosyncratic small buildings, and asks what we mean by building 'green' and how doing so enriches the world around us. The projects here are not only about building well, but about seeing well. They embrace the spectrum of small structures from traditional nature huts and ornamental follies, to the charmingly surreal. Buildings that look after people can also be the ones that look after the earth. Also by Phyllis Richardson: XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings House Plus: Imaginative Ideas for Extending your Home Contemporary Natural Other books of interest: Ecological Architecture: A Critical History David Adjaye Houses: Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding The New Autonomous House: Design and Planning for Sustainability