Esteemed architect Nick Hollo provides a simple explanation of the principles of low-energy housing design, and illustrates these principles with more than one hundred inspirational examples, from project and kit homes to new architect-designed houses, renovations and extensions, and medium- to highdensity dwellings from all climatic zones. Whether you are planning to renovate, build or buy, this book will offer you inspiration and ideas on how to make any house anywhere an environmentally sustainable, comfortable and attractive place to live in all year round, while keeping electricity, gas and water bills comfortably low.