The Environmental Imagination : technics and poetics of the architectural environment / Dean Hawkes.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
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- 9780415360869 (hbk.)
- 0415360862 (hbk.)
- 0415360870 (pbk.)
- 9780203799413 (ebook)
- 0203799410 (ebook)
- 9780415360876 (pbk.)
- 721.04609 22 H.D.E
- NA2542.35 .H37 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction Part 1: From Enlightenment to Modernity 1. Soane, Labrouste, Mackintosh - Pioneers of Environment Part 2: The Twentieth Century Environment - Themes and Variations 2. Le Corbusier and Mies van der Roche: Continuity and Invention 3. The 'Other' Environmental Tradition: Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto 4. Louis I. Kahn: The Poetics of Served and Servant 5. Carlo Scarpa: "I Wish I Could Frame the Blue of the Sky" 6. Sigurd Lewerentz: Architecture of Adaptive Light Part 3: Image and Environment 7. The Sheltering Environment: Fehn and Zumthor 8. The Art Museum: Art, Environment, Imagination Moneo, Siza, Caruso St John, Zumthor 9. Sacred Places: Zumthor, Siza, Holl 10. Airs, Water, Places: Therme Vals Bibliography
Explores the relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. This book includes essays on buildings which highlight the response of pioneering architects to various technologies of mechanical services and their influence on the form of buildings.
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