Weather architecture / Jonathan Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Jonathan, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and climate.

Architecture and society.

Weather--Social aspects.

Weather.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Cover; weather architecture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Things of a Natural Kind; 2 The Seasons of A Life; 3 A Life in Ruins; 4 The Garden of Architecture; 5 Pigments and Pollution; 6 The Weather of Our Houses; 7 Submitting to the Seasons; 8 Fog, Glare and Gloom; 9 Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-354) and index.

ISBN:

9781135746117

1135746117

9780415668613

0415668611

9781135746049

1135746044

9780203722664

0203722663

OCLC:

852757635