Architecture and climate : an environmental history of British architecture, 1600-2000 / Dean Hawkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkes, Dean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and climate--Great Britain--History.

Architecture and climate.

Architecture--Environmental aspects--Great Britain--History.

Architecture.

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Environmental history of British architecture, 1600-2000

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Tracing the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century, Dean Hawkes presents an original approach to the study of architecture and climate. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects, the book deftly 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 extensive documentary research and on first-hand analyses of significant buildings, the book combines architectural history with the parallel fields of climate history and the representation of environment in literature and the fine arts. It spans the period in British architectural history from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century; from the buildings of the greatest architect of the Elizabethan age, Robert Smythson, to the work of his twentieth century near namesakes, Alison and Peter Smithson.

Beautifully illustrated with drawings and photographs, including a colour plate section, the book brings a historical dimension to the appreciation of the environment in architecture and, equally, introduces an environmental element to the study of the history of architecture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Climate described

Robert Smythson and the environment of the Elizabethan country house

Christopher Wren and the origins of building science

Palladianism and the climate of England

Building in the climate of the nineteenth century city

The arts and crafts house climatically considered

The modern movement house in the British climate

The environmental architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415561860

0415561868

9780415561877

0415561876

OCLC:

587110244