The architecture of the well-tempered environment / Reyner Banham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banham, Reyner, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Environmental engineering.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [1984]

Summary:

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Illustrations

1. Unwarranted apology

2. Environmental management

3. A dark satanic century

4. The kit of parts: heat and light

5. Environments of large buildings

6. The well-tempered home

7. The environment of the machine aesthetic

8. Machines a habiter

9. Towards full control

10. Concealed power

11. Exposed power

12. A range of methods

13. A breath of intelligence

Readings in environmental technology

Photo credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Banham, Reyner Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

ISBN:

0-226-82588-4

OCLC:

1312170176