Modern architecture and climate : design before air conditioning /
"Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surr...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvr0qrd5 |
Sommario:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Architecture, Media, and Climate
- Part I: The Globalization of the International Style
- Obstacles
- Risks
- Tests
- Part II: The American Acceleration
- Control
- Calculation
- Conditioning
- The Planetary Interior
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits