The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

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Elsevier, 22 oct 2013 - 296 páginas
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment presents the fundamental aspects of the architecture of the well-tempered environment. This book considers what architects had taken to be the proper use and exploitation of mechanical environmental controls, and shows how this had manifested itself in the design of their buildings. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the history of the mechanization of environmental management. This text then explains the accumulation of capital goods and equipment needed to produce a moderate level of civilized culture in pre-technological societies, which requires that building materials be treated as if valuable and permanent. Other chapters consider that it is necessary not only to create habitable environments, but to conserve them. This book discusses as well the kind of technology of environment in the 19th century. The final chapter deals with the liberation of architecture from the ballast of structure. This book is a valuable resource for architects.
 

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Chapter 1 Unwarranted apology
11
Chapter 2 Environmental management
18
Chapter 3 A dark satanic century
29
heat and light
45
Chapter 5 The environments of large buildings
71
Chapter 6 The welltempered home
93
Chapter 7 Environment of the machine aesthetic
122
Chapter 8 Machines à habiter
143
Chapter 9 Towards full control
171
Chapter 10 Concealed power
195
Chapter 11 Exposed power
234
Chapter 12 A range of methods
265
Readings in environmental technology
290
Photo credits
291
Index
292
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