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"""""Climatic Architecture"" is about climate and its impact on architecture. Informatively written by the Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, ""Climatic Architecture"" is a informative monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office ""Philippe Rahm architectes"", as well as a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming, and a theoretical and practical treatise on the art of building atmospheres. This large format (8.1 x 1.3 x 12.5 inches, 3.05 pounds) hardcover edition of ""Climatic Architecture"" is highly recommended fore personal, professional, community, and college/university library Contemporary Architectural Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists."" --Midwest Book Review"

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Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect, principal in the office of ""Philippe Rahm architectes"", based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. His recent work includes the first prize for the Farini competition (60 ha) in Milan in 2019, the 70 hectares Central Park in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in December 2020. He has held professorships at GSD Harvard University, Columbia, Cornell or Princeton Universities. He is a tenured associate professor at the National Superior School of Architecture in Versailles, France (ENSA-V). In 2020, he is the curator and author of the exhibition and book ""Natural History of Architecture"" at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris. Links Actar Publishers is committed to investigating the culture of the architectural, urbanism and landscape disciplines through inno

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