Rob Fleming is the author or co-author of four text books. His new book, Survivability, A friendly guide to the end of the world is near completion.
This is Rob’s first creative non-fiction project. You can learn more about the concept of Survivability by clicking here
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, co-authored by authored by Saglinda Roberts and Chitsanzo Isaac, is a college level text book that prepares built environment students and professionals to pursue authentic sustainable design.
Space Planning Basics is a widely read textbook on interior desing and is used for the NCIDQ and ARE Exams, as well as many courses in higher education.
Sustainable Design Basics documents a revolutionary approach to teaching sustainable design in a studio setting. Co-authored with Sharon Jaffe, Mark Karlen, and Saglinda H. Roberts, this book lays out the “net-zero-first” design methodology, which allows students to intentionally pursue high-level sustainability metrics on a design project.
Design Education for a Sustainable Future is written for design professors seeking to pursue a more integrated, holistic approach to teaching sustainable design.
Books and Chapters
- Fleming, R; Roberts, S, Isaac, C: Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, Routledge, London, England, 2024, 2019, 2025 (Second Edition)
- Fryer R., Fleming, R.: Chapter: The Net-Zero First Design Studio, Radical pedagogy for the fight against climate change, Twenty Award Winning Architectural Design Studio Methodologies, Routledge, London, 2025 – Review
- Fleming, R. Chapter: The Social Imperative of Urban Greening, The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities, Routledge, London, 2024
- Jaffe, S; Fleming, R; Karlen, M; Roberts, S: Sustainable Design Basics, 4th and 5th Edition, Wiley and Sons, 2018, 2025
- Fleming, R: Design Education for a Sustainable Future, EarthScan/Routledge, London, England, 2013
- Roberts, S; Fleming, R: Chapter: Sustainable Structures, Architect’s Guide to Structures, Routledge, 2017
Papers and Articles
- Fleming, Rob: Radical and systemic changes to the design studio to fight climate change ACSA/EAAE, June, 2021, Video
- Fleming, Rob: Transforming the design studio to fight climate change. ACSA, 2021
- Fleming, Rob: An Evolution in Design Education: A 10 year experiment in alternative teaching and learning in the Anthropocene, ACSA Proceedings, Washington D.C., 2020
- Fleming, Rob: Integral Theory: An Expanded and Holistic Framework for Sustainability, World Sustainability Series 2015, pp 259-273, Springer, Switzerland, 2015
- Fleming, Rob: The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design, Journal of Architectural Education, 68-2, ACSA, 2014
- Fleming, Rob: Connecting the Dots, Grid Magazine, Red Flag Media, December, 2014
- Fleming, Rob: A 21st Century Approach to Trans-disciplinary Sustainable Design Education, Proceedings: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, National Conference, Boston, Mass, 2012 (Blind reviewed)
- Fleming, Rob; Justus, Victoria: Book Chapter: Compliance, Safety and Sustainability, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance. Alan S. Bigger, Editor-in-Chief, 2011
- Fleming, Rob: Sustainability, A Paradigm Not a Practice, Green Careers in Building and Landscape, Petersons, 2010
- Fleming, Rob; Pastore, Chris: “The Aesthetics of Green,” Proceedings, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2003
- Messinger, Alex; Fleming, Rob; Pastore, Chris; Wollner, Csilla: Search for a New Approach into the Investigation of Fabric Structures, Proceedings 2002 ACSA National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002 (Blind reviewed)
- Fleming, Rob: Survivor Studio @ Philadelphia University: Promoting sustainability in the design studio through collaborative game playing, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 3, Number 2, 2002, pp. 146 – 154 (Blind reviewed)
- Messinger, Alex; Fleming, Rob; Pastore, Chris; Wollner, Csilla: Understanding it all: A New Approach to Investigating Fabric Structures, Part 1, Fabric Architecture Magazine, May/June 2002, pp. 10-17
- Fleming, Rob: Survivor Studiohttps://www.emerald.com/ijshe/article-abstract/3/2/146/154013/Survivor-Studio-Philadelphia-UniversityPromoting?redirectedFrom=fulltext @ Philadelphia University: Promoting sustainability in the design studio through collaborative game playing, Greening of the Campus 4: Moving to the Mainstream, Conference Proceedings, Ball State University, 2001 (Blind reviewed)
- Pastore, Chris, Dunn, Matt, Fleming, Rob: Renewable Nonwoven Composites for a Sustainable Future, Proceedings INTC 2001, Baltimore Maryland, 2001
- Fleming, Rob: New Green Building Studio at Philadelphia University, The Philadelphia Architect, November, 2000
- Fleming, Rob, Satellite Images from the Ground-up and Other Ecological Aspects of Raster Imaging, Heterotopolis: Immigration, Ethnicity and the American City, Proceedings of the 88th ACSA Annual Meeting, ACSA Press, Washington D.C., 2000 (Blind reviewed)
- Fleming, Rob, Sustainable Architecture Courses at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, The Declaration: Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, Volume 3, Number 1: March 1999
- Fleming, Rob, The Role of Interactive Media within Sustainable Curriculum, Constructing New Worlds: Proceedings of the 1998 ACSA International Conference ACSA Press, Washington, DC: 1998 (Blind reviewed)