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The Environmental Imagination : technics and poetics of the architectural environment / Dean Hawkes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkes, Dean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Environmental aspects--History.
- Architecture.
- Buildings--Environmental engineering--History.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Environmental engineering.
- History.
- Architecture--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between technics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book aims to redefine the historiography of environmental design. The author looks beyond conventional histories to recognise that environmental design is not purely a technical matter: it is a collaboration between poetic intentions and technical means.
- The essays in this book assess the work of leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures to demonstrate the growth of environmental awareness. A consideration of the qualitative dimension of the environment is added to the existing, primarily technological, narratives. Essays on earlier buildings highlight the response of pioneering architects to the 'new' technologies of mechanical services and their influence on the form of buildings, while the late twentieth-century design is explored in particular depth to illustrate individual strands of the environmental diversity of modern practice. The architects discussed range from John Soane to Peter Zumthor. The Environmental Imagination will appeal to those interested in both architectural technology and history and theory.
- Contents:
- Part I From Enlightenment to Modernity 1
- Essay 1 Soane, Labrouste, Mackintosh: pioneers of environment 3
- Part II The Twentieth-Century Environment: themes and variations 31
- Essay 2 Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe: continuity and invention 33
- Essay 3 The 'other' environmental tradition: Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto 61
- Essay 4 The poetics of 'served' and 'servant': Louis I. Kahn 87
- Essay 5 'I wish I could frame the blue of the sky': Carlo Scarpa 111
- Essay 6 Architecture of adaptive light: Sigurd Lewerentz 129
- Part III Image and Environment 143
- Essay 7 The sheltering environment: Fehn and Zumthor 145
- Essay 8 The art museum: art, environment, imagination - Moneo, Siza, Caruso St John, Zumthor 157
- Essay 9 Sacred places: Zumthor, Siza, Holl 185
- Essay 10 Airs, waters, places: Therme Vals 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415360869
- 0415360862
- 0415360870
- 9780203799413
- 0203799410
- 9780415360876
- OCLC:
- 62891230
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