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Selected Bibliography

Afshar Farroukh, Allan Cain, John Norton, and M. R. Dardie. Oman: Problems and Potentials of Indigenous Building. Development Workshop Report. London: Architectural Association School of Architecture, 1974.

Alcock, A. E. S., and H. M. Richards. How to Build for Climate. London: Longman, 1960.
"Architecture and Energy." Architectural Forum 134, no. 1 (July-August 1973): 1112.

Aronin, A. J. Climate and Architecture. New York: Reinhold Publishing, 1953.

Aslam, Mohammad. Research on Building Materials at Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Karachi: Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1964.

Atkinson, G. A. "An Introduction to Tropical Building Design." Architectural Design 23 (October 1953): 268.

Atkinson, G. A. Design and Construction in the Tropics. United Nations Housing and Town and Country Bulletin no. 6. New York: United Nations, 1956.

Atkinson, G. A. "Principles of Tropical Design." Architectural Review 128, no. 761 (1960).

Bahadori, Mehdi. "Passive Cooling Systems in Iranian Architecture." Scientific American 238, no. 2 (February 1978): 144.

Bowen, Arthur, Eugene Clark, and Kenneth Labs. Passive Cooling: Proceedings of the International Hybrid Cooling Conference. Newark, N.J.: Dell/ International Solar Energy Society, 1981.

Building Research Board of the National Research Council. Roofing in Developing Countries: Research for New Technologies. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1974.

Calder, R. Man against the Desert. Mystic, Conn.: Verry, Lawrence, Inc., 1958.

Campbell, R. McKellar. "Designing for Comfort in a Tropical Climate." Tropical Building Studies (Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne) 2, no. 2 (1965).

Cleland, R. W. "Building for Tropical Climates." Building Ideas (C.S.R. Building Materials, Brisbane) 2, no. 10 (1964).

Climate and House Design. New York: United Nations, 1971. "Consideration of Houses Adapted to Local Climate-Case Studies of Iranian Houses in Yazd and Isfahan." Energy and Buildings, no. 4 (1982).

Correa, Charles. "Climate Control." Architectural Design 39, no. 8 (1969). Fathy, Hassan. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Fitch, James Marston, and D. P. Branch. "Primitive Architecture and Climate." Scientific American 203, no. 6 (December 1960): 134 144.

Fry, Maxwell, and Jane Drew. Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones. Huntington, N.Y.: Robert E. Krieger, 1964.

Geiger, R. The Climate Near the Ground. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.

Givoni, B. Man, Climate and Architecture. 2d ed. Essex, England: Applied Science, 1976.

Givoni, B., and R. Sheldon. "Influence of Roof Types and Construction on Indoor Conditions in Beersheba." Research Paper no. 11, Building Research Station, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1962.

Golany, Gideon. Architecture in the Arid Zone. London: Architectural Press, 1979.

Koenigsberger, O. H., T. G. Ingersoll, A. Mayhew, and S. V. Szokolay. Manual of Tropical Housing and Building Design: Part 1, Climatic Design. London: Longman, 1973.

Koenigsberger, O. H., and R. Lynn. "Roofs in the Warm Humid Tropics." Architecture Association Paper no. 1, Lund Humphries, London, 1965.

Koenigsberger, O. H., J. S. Millar, and J. Costopolous. "Window and Ventilator Openings in Warm and Humid Climates." Architectural Science Review 2, no. 2 (1959): 82-96.

Kuba, G. K. "Climatic Effect on Buildings in Hot-Arid Areas." Ph.D. dies., University of Khartoum (Sudan), 1970.

Landsberg, H. E. "Man-Made Climatic Changes." Science 17O, no. 3964 (18 December 1970): 1265-1274.

Lippsmeier, Georg. Building in the Tropics. Munich, Fed. Rep. of Germany: Callwey, 1980.

McHarg, L. L. Design with Nature. New York: Doubleday/Natural History Press, 1969.

Nakhla, Samir. "An Approach to Reginal Architecture: A Case Study of the MiddleEast with Special
Reference to Egypt." Diss., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1970.

Oakley, David. Tropical Houses. Batsford, London, 1961.

Olgyay, V. Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Page, J. K. Climate and Town Planning, with Special Reference to Tropical and Subtropical Climates. BRS Overseas Building Notes, no. 52, June 1958.

Rapoport, Amos. House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, 1969.

Raychaudhuri, B. C., S. Ali, and D. P. Garg. "Indoor Climate of Residential Buildings in Hot Arid Regions-Effect of Orientation." Building Science 1, no. 1 (1965).

Saini, Balwant S. "Housing in the Hot Arid Tropics." Architectural Science Review 5, no. 1 (Brisbane, Australia) (March 1962): 3-12.

Saini, Balwant S. Building Environment. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973.

Stein, James. Energy and Architecture: Implications for Human Settlements. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 1975. van Straaten, J. F. Thermal Performance of Buildings. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1967.

"Warm Climates and Building Design: Types of Climate," Colonial Building Notes no. 12, Building Research Station, Watford, England, 1963.

Wright, David. Natural Solar Architecture: A Passive Primer. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1978.


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