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Elemental Architecture - Temperaments of Sustainability (Paperback)
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Elemental Architecture - Temperaments of Sustainability (Paperback)
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Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to
sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard
performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures, it
incorporates a broader framework of considerations, including the
more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design. The
book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval
alchemists' system of the Five Temperaments: fire, earth, air,
water, and ether. Phillip James Tabb examines how these elements
produce both positive and negative environmental forces which have
an impact on architectural design - from drinking water and fresh
air to torrential floods and tornados. He shows how responding to
or enhancing these forces can help us to create a more sustainable,
healthy, and purposeful architecture. To illustrate this, each
chapter draws on seminal contemporary works of architecture, from
Peter Zumthor's Bruder-Klaus Field Chapel to Frank Lloyd Wright's
masterpiece at Fallingwater. These examples are accompanied by over
a hundred high-quality illustrations. Expanding the discussion of
sustainability to include phenomenological as well as qualitative
considerations, Elemental Architecture is ideal for students and
researchers with an interest in sustainable architecture and
architectural theory.
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