EAN: 9780141978208

ARCHITECTURE - BARNABAS CALDER KARTONIERT (TB)

A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and
energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in  from the
humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers  reveal our priorities and ambitions  our
family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn't been explored until now 
architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy  from fire to farming to
fossil fuels. In this ground-breaking history of world architecture  Barnabas Calder takes us
on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years
from Uruk  via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool  to China's booming megacities. He reveals
how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian
house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects  and why this matters. Today
architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from
the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then
now  more than ever  we need beautiful but also intelligent buildings  and to retrofit - not
demolish - those that remain. Both a celebration of human ingenuity and a passionate call for
greater sustainability  this is a history of architecture for our times.

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