Modern architecture : a planetary warming history / Hans Ibelings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibelings, Hans, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Building materials--Environmental aspects.

Building materials.

Global warming.

global warming.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Amsterdam : The Architecture Observer, [2023]

Summary:

"Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession’s collective memory of how modern architecture’s history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background."--Back cover.

"Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession's collective memory of how modern architecture's history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Intro : industrial revolution, modern architecture, planetary warming.

Architecture, planet.

Architecture, climate.

City, climate.

Cityscape, landscape.

Technosphere.

Architecture, land, water, air, organisms.

Architecture, ecology.

Outro : architectural history, ecologically.

Index.

Credits.

Notes:

"A special thanks to students of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto: Dorottya Kiss (research assistance); and the graduate students in [the] Modern Architecture / Planetary Warming seminar (Fall 2022)..."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789492058164

9492058162

OCLC:

1373629680