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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Barber, Daniel A.
Titre(s) : Modern architecture and climate [Texte imprimé] : design before air conditioning / Daniel A. Barber
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (316 p.) : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. [298]-308 and index. - Notes bibliogr.
"Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth
century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how
regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern
architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II-before fossil-fuel powered
air-conditioning became widely available-Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and
dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems
as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects
such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto,
Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston
Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced
by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists,
physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type
of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural
design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate
provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship
with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United
States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the
cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon
emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings, and offers a historical
foundation for today's zero-carbon design"
Sujet(s) : Architecture et climat
Architecture -- 1945-1970
Indice(s) Dewey :
724.6 (23e éd.) = Architecture - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691170039. - ISBN 0691170037. - ISBN 9780691204949
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46573473n
Notice n° :
FRBNF46573473
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