Modern Architecture and Climate (eBook)

Design before Air Conditioning

Daniel A. Barber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20494-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern 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, Lucio 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 76 color + 196 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Air Conditioning • American Modernism • Archigram • Architectural Forum • Architecture • Architecture of the United States • Archive • Arizona State University • ASHRAE • Athens Charter • Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library • Barry Bergdoll • Bibliography • Building • Building Design • Calculation • Case study • Case Study Houses • Climate • climate change • Climate pattern • Climate Responsive Design • climatology • cold climate house design • Computation • Construction • convergence • Curtain wall (architecture) • Designer • Design Strategy • diagram • Eco Design • ecofriendly • ecological design • Ecology • Economic Development • Economic Growth • energy efficiency • Engineering • Environmental Degradation • Environmental history • Environmentalism • Fondation Le Corbusier • Fossil fuel • Fossil Fuels • Frank Lloyd Wright • Geopolitics • George Perkins Marsh • global warming • Governmentality • Green Building • Greta Thunberg • Grey Room • heating and cooling • Heliodon • Henry-Russell Hitchcock • Hinterland • house design for tropical climate • Humanities • Humidity • H-VAC • HVAC • Illustration • industrialisation • Infrastructure • insurance • Interior design • International Style (architecture) • Jane Drew • Kiel Moe • Landscape architecture • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design • Le Corbusier • Lecture • LEED • lewis mumford • Louver • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Maxwell Fry • meteorology • Microclimate • Modern Architecture • Modernity • Neoliberalism • Niger Delta • obstacle • Oscar Niemeyer • passive design strategies • Peter Eisenman • Philip Johnson • pollution • Postmodernism • Princeton Architectural Press • Princeton University • Random House • refrigeration • Reyner Banham • Richard Neutra • Roof Garden • Routledge • Royal Institute of British Architects • Scientific American • Scientist • Seagrams Building • Seminar • Sigfried Giedion • Skyscraper • suburb • Sustainable design • Technology • Temple Hoyne Buell • Thermal comfort • UNESCO building • Urban Design • urban planning • Vargas (state) • Ventilation shaft • Victor Olgyay • Wall • Walter Gropius • Weather • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20494-2 / 0691204942
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20494-9 / 9780691204949