C. Alan Short

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture

Air, Comfort and Climate

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The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the n… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-65868-9
EAN: 9781317658689
Produktnummer: 22341624
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 404 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 29'064 KB
Abbildungen: 203 farbige Fotos, 106 farbige Zeichn., 13 farbige Tabellen

Über den Autor

C. Alan Short was educated at Trinity College Cambridge and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has been the Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge since 2001 and his work focuses on the design of sustainable buildings. He will become the ninth President of Clare Hall Cambridge in August 2020, a seven year term. He has also designed a sequence of very low energy buildings, one of very few architects in the UK deeply involved in Higher Education and Research.