EAN: 9780691170039

MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE - DANIEL A BARB...

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 surrounding World War II--before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely
available--Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion
involving design  materials  and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks
at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra  Le Corbusier  Lúcio Costa  Mies
van der Rohe  and Skidmore  Owings  and Merrill  and the work of climate-focused architects
such as MMM Roberto  Olgyay and Olgyay  and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of
James Marston Fitch  Elizabeth Gordon  and others  he demonstrates how images and diagrams
produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge  alongside the work of
meteorologists  physicists  engineers  and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel
type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural
design.

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