Book review: The New Carbon Architecture: Building to cool the climate

Abstract

The New Carbon Architecture was released in late 2017, and is the most recent book by this author. He also wrote many books about sustainable materials, such as Make better concrete, Building of Earth and straw, and Design of Straw bale building in 2015. It seems that his interest in Sustainability in construction materials has been for quite sometimes, even before the SDGs came to signing agreement in 2015. Bruce King is the author, whose background and practice is a structural engineer. He also brought up a great team that have been greatly co-authoring many portions of this book. They are a group of architects, engineers, many specialists in timber, sustainability, and innovative materials, Professor, researchers, and so on. From witnessing content of this book and other books, he seems to play a writing role as the active environmentalist, focused particularly on the built environment aspect. The style of writing has few technical terms, simple, and resemble storytelling, while no readers have to be architects and engineers, so they can understand. It resembles non-fiction genre, but is rather academic side.