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Author:   Mike McEvoy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
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9781032932262

ISBN 10:   1032932260
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   16 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures Introduction Part One: The State of the Art Chapter One: Which Way to Jump? Case Study: Energiesprong Chapter Two: The Carrying Capacity of the Planet The Anthropocene and nature Sustainable Development, its origins and implications Ecomodernism and the magic of technology The climate crisis and the crisis of culture Cultural juncture Case Study: IFORE Innovation for Renewal Chapter Three: Re-evaluation of Modernism Tipping point Regulation Alternative directions The ecomodernist direction: geo-engineering Case Study: Parity Projects Chapter Four: Sustainable Retreat Technology (alone) is not the answer The future slowdown The idea of progress Modernism and the natural world Architecture as a belief system Case Study: Link Road Birmingham Chapter Five: Caring Architecture The future role of the architect will be to build sparingly Building little implies making good what we already have i.e. retrofit Part Two: A Brief History of Retrofit Chapter Six: Size of the Problem The energy case for retrofit Problem #1 Determining the outcomes Chapter Seven: Pre-requisites for Retrofit Retrofit at the urban scale Retrofit origins The 40 per cent house Problem #2 Insulation Chapter Eight: Drivers for Change Problem #3 Overheating Chapter Nine: Home Truths 40 per cent House to achieving zero Problem #4 Ventilation Chapter Ten: Anticipating the Green Deal Problem #5 Air-tightness Chapter Eleven: Retrofit Comes to a Halt Problem #6 Renewables Chapter Twelve: Measuring Success – 80% Reduction and ‘Retrofit for the Future’ Low carbon Britain Problem #7 The occupants Chapter Thirteen: The Progress of Retrofit Retrofit and performance Architects as retrofit leaders Architectural skills required? Part Three: Towards a New Utopia Chapter Fourteen: The Art of the Imagination Retrofit realigned Retrofit and utopia Chapter Fifteen: The Problem of Theory The politics of architecture Capitalism and creative destruction Modernism and radical politics Chapter Sixteen: Architecture’s Very Uniquely Compromised Position The roots of modernism: Hannes Meyer and the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) The hidden aspects of consciousness, the uncanny, Gothic and Surrealism Urban ecology Chapter Seventeen: Echoes from the Past: Herbert Marcuse Society as a work of art Retrofit as the representation of society as a work of art Marcuse’s utopia of hope, utopia as a realisable dream Retrofit as subversive art Chapter Eighteen: Retrofit and Architects: A Future. Architects and innovation – our utopian mission Architecture or Extinction Index

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Mike McEvoy studied at Cambridge prior to registration as an architect, then went on a postgraduate scholarship to Cornell; his PhD is from the Bartlett. He was in practice in the United States and Canada and for a decade with Arup Associates in London. Subsequently, he was Coordinator of Technical Studies at the University of Westminster; on the faculty at Cambridge and a Fellow Commoner of Downing College; and latterly, Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton, where he led EU IFORE an Anglo/French €6.3million street-by-street retrofit programme (which is the background to this book). Previously, he had completed, and published, the outcomes of several funded research projects into low-energy construction. He has written three other books on architectural technology: Architecture and Construction in Steel, External Components, and Environmental Construction Handbook.

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