Architecture and Energy offers solid arguments for environmental design decisions that address three different scales or aspects of contemporary building. By compiling essays from leading experts in the field and case studies in the UK, US, Europe and Asia, this book addresses crucial design issues such as the role of energy in shaping the cultural and economic systems in which architecture is conceived, built and evaluated; the measures and meanings of energy ‘performance’ and how those measures are implemented in buildings; the specific ways in which energy use translates into the visible aspects of architectural style.