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The Environmental Imagination - Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Environmental Imagination - Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between
tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture.
Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth
century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography
of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to
argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration
between poetic intentions and technical means. In a sequence of
essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the
impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of
environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the
qualitative dimension of environment is added to the primarily
technological narratives of other accounts. In this second edition,
the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to
include further research conducted in the decade since the first
edition. A number of important buildings have been revisited, in
order to extend the descriptions of their environments, and studies
have been made of a number of newly studied, significant buildings.
A completely new essay offers an environmental interpretation of
Luis Barragan's magical own house in Mexico City and the earlier
studies of buildings by Peter Zumthor have been gathered into a
single, extended essay that includes a body of new research. On the
fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Reyner Banham's, The
Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the book concludes
with a critical tribute to that seminal text. The Environmental
Imagination will appeal to academics and practitioners with
interests in the history, theory and technology of architecture.
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