The Environments of Architecture: Environmental Design in Context

This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture.  The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of a wider discussion on the effect of building decisions on the broader environment.   The authors, from architecture and engineering, academia and practice, provide a rounded and well-balanced introduction to this important topic. Starting from a belief that the built environment can contribute more positively to the planet and the pleasure of places as well as answering the practical demands of comfort, they cover site planning, form, materials, construction and operation as well as looking at design on a city level.  Presenting a thoughtful and stimulating approach to the built environment, this book forms an excellent guide for practitioners, students and academics concerned with our built environment.

Science & Math

Garnham, Trevor

Thomas, Randall

Earth Sciences

Taylor&Francis

This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture. The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of a wider discussion on the effect of building decisions on the broader environment. The authors, from architecture and engineering, academia and practice, provide a rounded and well-balanced introduction to this important topic. Starting from a belief that the built environment can contribute more positively to the planet and the pleasure of places as well as answering the practical demands of comfort, they cover site planning, form, materials, construction and operation as well as looking at design on a city level. Presenting a thoughtful and stimulating approach to the built environment, this book forms an excellent guide for practitioners, students and academics concerned with our built environment.

Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History

Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day.  It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design.  This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a ‘history of histories’. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement – Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck – and Post-modernism – such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Routledge

Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design. This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a ‘history of histories’. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement – Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck – and Post-modernism – such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.

The Oxford Museum was one of the pioneering Gothic Revival buildings in Victorian England. Its experimental application of cast iron as an expressive structural medium and the craftsmanship of its carved decoration won the building the approval of Ruskin, whose theories it skilfully embody.

Oxford Museum: Deane and Woodward (Architecture in Detail)

History & Criticism

Phaidon Inc Ltd

The Architecture in Detail series consists of thoroughly illustrated (color and b&w photos, technical drawings and working details) and technically informative monographs, embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned structures. Architect William Richard Lethaby's Melsetter House in Orkney (1898) exemplifies the principles underlying the domestic architecture of the arts and crafts movement of the 1890s: simplicity, strength, and harmony with surrounding nature. 11.75x11.75". Distributed in the US by Chronicle Books. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Melsetter House: William Richard Lethaby (Architecture in Detail)

St. Andrew's Church exemplifies Edward Prior's belief that rational building should replace architecture conceived as a style. Superficially, St. Andrew's appears plain, even roughly made. But closer inspection reveals this simplicity to be the mason's response to the nature of the local porous limestone, and Prior alluding to Saxon buildings. The interior is equally austere dominated by massive stone arches spanning the 52-foot-wide nave. Concrete, iron, an integrated heating and ventilating system, all point this building towards modernism. At close quarters the congregation is brought into contact with the beautiful furniture of Ernest Gimson, ceiling by MacDonald Gill, carpets by Morris, a tapestry by Burne-Jones and stained glass by A. H. Payne. The ambiguity of the whole building makes St. Andrew's fascinating, particularly the interior sparkling in the light refracted through Prior's patented 'Early English Glass'.

St Andrew's Church (Architecture in Detail)

History

Europe

Phaidon Press

Arts & Crafts Masterpieces (Architecture 3s)

Architecture Re-Assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History

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The Environments of Architecture: Environmental Design in Context

The Environments of Architecture: Environmental Design in Context

Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History

Architecture Re-assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History

Oxford Museum: Deane and Woodward (Architecture in Detail)

Melsetter House: William Richard Lethaby (Architecture in Detail)

St Andrew's Church (Architecture in Detail)

Arts & Crafts Masterpieces (Architecture 3s)

Architecture Re-Assembled: The Use (and Abuse) of History