Weather architecture / Jonathan Hill.
By: Hill, Jonathan
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415668613 (pbk); 9780415668606 (hbk).Subject(s): Architecture and climate | Architecture and society | Weather -- Social aspects | Architectural criticism | ARCHITECTURE / General | ARCHITECTURE / Criticism | ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green DesignDDC classification: 720.4 Summary: "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.
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Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. 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 affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user.
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, leading to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-354) and index.
"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.
UCC fund.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Things of a Natural Kind (p. 7)
- 2 The Seasons of A Life (p. 45)
- 3 A Life in Ruins (p. 87)
- 4 The Garden of Architecture (p. 109)
- 5 Pigments and Pollution (p. 147)
- 6 The Weather of Our Houses (p. 175)
- 7 Submitting to the Seasons (p. 223)
- 8 Fog, Glare and Gloom (p. 253)
- 9 Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures (p. 287)
- Conclusion (p. 305)
- Bibliography (p. 323)
- Index (p. 355)