Architecture of the Well–Tempered Environment 2e - Hardcover

Banham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226036979 ISBN 13: 9780226036977

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

Describes the one hundred year history of internal atmosphere and light management systems from convection-duct ventilation to solar-wall heating

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book is offered as a contribution to the history of architecture as normally understood and was produced by fairly conventional modes of architectural history writing. When the research for the present study was first put in hand, the intention was to write a purely architectual history; to consider what architects had taken to be the proper use and exploitation of mechanical environmental controls, and to show how this had manifested itself in the design of their buildings.

About the Author

Reyner Banham (1922-88) was professor of history at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226036979
• ISBN 13: 9780226036977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320