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Architecture and Climate: An Environmental History of British Architecture 1600–2000 book cover

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Architecture and Climate An Environmental History of British Architecture 1600–2000

By Dean Hawkes Copyright 2012
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental influence on the nature of buildings of all kinds and periods, in both country and city. Based on... Read more
Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Climate described  2. Robert Smythson and the environment of the Elizabethan country house  3. Christopher Wren and the origins of building science  4. Palladianism and the climate of England  5. Building in the climate of the nineteenth century city  6. The Arts and Crafts house climatically considered  7. The modern movement house in the British climate  8. The environmental architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson 

Biography

Dean Hawkes is emeritus professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His previous books include The Environmental Tradition (1996), The Selective Environment (2002) and The Environmental Imagination (2008). In 2010 he received the RIBA’s biennial Annie Spink Award for excellence in architectural education.

"...impeccably well researched with extensive references...this book should be on the shelves of many practising and student architects, not just those preoccupied with issues of climate (change)" – RIBA Journal

"The book will certainly appeal to those practitioners and academics who find the use of labels such as ‘green’ or ‘climate responsive’ architecture deeply problematic and even a deterrant to the timely integration of environmental performance requirements into mainstream practice. It should also be a necessary read for those who do not have such reservations and give primacy to the climatic and technical determinismof building form." - Raymond J. Cole, Building Research & Information, August 2012

"Architecture and Climate breaks new ground by presenting an historical overview of these issues over the past 400 years." - The Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation

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