Green By Design: Creating a Home
for Sustainable Living by Angela
Dean
This Book Is About "Sustainable Living" In Practice Not Just Theory
There is no one-size-fits-all plan for so-called green homes; rather, there
are universal principles of design that can be applied to individual tastes
and needs. Architect Angela Dean offers a variety of ways to incorporate
green building into your home, including using healthy building materials
such as straw bales and natural flooring, taking advantage of local
materials and resources, reusing gray water for landscaping, and
incorporating passive solar design. Her goal is to teach people how to think
about building sustainable homes. Green by Design provides a
thorough analysis of what it means to build green and offers advice on
what to consider when designing a sustainable home. Green by Design
features full-color photographs and line drawings of floor plans show
different examples of successful sustainable homes. It also includes in-
depth case studies of more than a dozen homes so readers planning a

green home can see what worked for others. By providing people with
knowledge, inspiration, and the ability to ask the right questions (and
understand the answers) Green by Design puts home builders and owners
on a path to creating beautiful, environmentally responsible homes that
they can be proud to live in. Angela Dean, AIA, is principal architect of
AMD Architecture in Salt Lake City. She specializes in environmentally
responsible designs to create healthy, comfortable buildings that are in
harmony with the environment
Personal Review: Green By Design: Creating a Home for
Sustainable Living by Angela Dean
My 50's Florida ranch style home is in the design stage for major remodel.
In the the first "case study" in Green by Design the owner's took a 50's
style one bedroom home in Utah and incorporated the foundation and
concrete masonry shell into the new design. Exactly my plan. The author
uses 14 green design homes as case studies with wonderfully insightful
pictures and just the right text to accompany the pictures and to explain
"process", "design", "site", "materials", "space", "energy"- all concepts I can
use to make my newly remodeled home a certifiable Florida Green Home.
Building Green is NOT about the latest designs and materials as the
previous reviewers would have you believe. It's about designing for
"sustainable living". Go to floridagreenbuilding.org to find a 5 page
checklist of features required to build a green home in Florida. Nothing will
get you more points (other than a small home) in this 5 page checklist than
not having a permament irrigation system. In fact not having a swimming
pool, not living on a natural body of water and not having an attached
garage all count toward living "green" in Florida. If you want an up-to-date
and "exhaustive resource" buy the latest edition of the "Greenspec
Directory"-$89.00 here on Amazon. However the last 5 pages of this book
is a list of resources, including the Greenspec Directory and 5 local green
building programs. With Florida's now you have 6.
The ultimate green home is a SMALL HOME! In Florida, a 1000 sq. ft.
home will get you 50 points (out of 200 required minimum for certification)
and a 2000 and above sq. ft. home will get you 0 points. Over 50% of the
case study homes in this book would have recieved extra points if they
would have been built in Florida. Which brings me to the regional focus of
this book. Most of the homes featured where located in western states ( a
few were in the northeast) and normally that would disqualify most books
for a Florida resident, but not in this case.
I highly recommend this book if you are serious about designing a home
for sustainable living.
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