Weather architecture / Jonathan Hill.
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- 9780415668606 (hardback)
- 0415668603 (hardback)
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- 0415668611 (pbk.)
- NA2541 .H55 2012
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NA2540 .E37 1997 The encyclopaedic dictionary in the eighteenth century : architecture, arts, and crafts / | NA2540. V56 2008 I am a monument : on Learning from Las Vegas / | NA2540. V56 2008 I am a monument : on Learning from Las Vegas / | NA2541 .H55 2012 Weather architecture / | NA2542.S6 B43 1996 Sol power : the evolution of solar architecture | NA2542.35 .C67 2011 Architecture & energy efficiency = Energieeffiziente Häuser = Architectuur en energie-efficiëntie = Arquitectura y eficiencia energética / | NA2542.35 .C67 2011 Architecture & energy efficiency = Energieeffiziente Häuser = Architectuur en energie-efficiëntie = Arquitectura y eficiencia energética / |
"This book considers climate as well as weather but its principal focus is everyday experience. Weather and climate differ in duration and scale. Unlike the weather, which we can see and feel at a specific time and place, we cannot directly perceive climate because it is an idea aggregated over many years and across a region. Weather Architecture further extends Hill's investigation of authorship by recognising the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although he acknowledges the influence of the client, contractor and engineer, the relations between the designer, user and weather are the focus of this book. Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture's relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather's effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, which leads to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider the weather as an architectural author that influences design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-354) and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Things of a Natural Kind -- 2. The Seasons of A Life -- 3. A Life in Ruins -- 4. The Garden of Architecture -- 5. Pigments and Pollution -- 6. The Weather of Our Houses -- 7. Submitting to the Seasons -- 8. Fog, Glare and Gloom -- 9. Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.