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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 1.088kg ISBN: 9781138628977ISBN 10: 1138628972 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 14 November 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsDedication. Preface to 2nd Edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: From Enlightenment to Modernity. 1. Soane, Labrouste, Mackintosh: Pioneers of Environment. Part 2: The Twentieth Century Environment: Themes and Variations. 2. Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe: Continuity and Invention. 3. The ‘Other’ Environmental Tradition: Nordic Masters. 4. Louis I. Kahn: The Poetics of Served and Servant. 5. Carlo Scarpa: 'I wish I could frame the blue of the sky'. 6. Sigurd Lewerentz: Architecture of Adaptive Light. 7. The Environmental Sensibility of Luis Barragán Part 3: Image and Environment 8. The Sheltering Environment. 9. The Environmental Imagination of Peter Zumthor. Epilogue 10. After Banham: 'I Do Not Like Pipes, I Do Not Like Ducts'. Selected bibliography. Index.ReviewsHawkes's core messages are ones that have been stimulated by imagination emanating from each of the architects' teams involved, and reciprocally have the potency to jog the inspiration of all those who perceive, look, read and comprehend such buildings, whether at first-hand or through the content of this important book. Colin Porteous, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, UK Excerpt from Buildings and Cities journal: https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/reviews/environmental-imagination.html Hawkes's core messages are ones that have been stimulated by imagination emanating from each of the architects' teams involved, and reciprocally have the potency to jog the inspiration of all those who perceive, look, read and comprehend such buildings, whether at first-hand or through the content of this important book. Colin Porteous, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, UK Excerpt from Buildings and Cities journal: https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/reviews/environmental-imagination.html Author InformationDean Hawkes was educated at the Regional College of Art, Manchester and Clare College, Cambridge. He is emeritus professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and an emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He taught and researched at Cambridge from 1965 to 1995, where he was director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies at Cambridge from 1979 to 1987. In 1995 he was appointed professor of architectural design at Cardiff. Following his retirement in 2002 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Darwin College. He has held visiting professorships at schools of architecture in Hong Kong, Singapore, Glasgow, Huddersfield and Leicester. His research is in the field of environmental design in architecture. He is the author of numerous essays and articles in academic and professional architectural journals and his books include, The Environmental Tradition (1996), The Selective Environment (2002), The Environmental Imagination, 1st edition (2008) and Architecture and Climate (2012). His buildings, in partnership with Stephen Greenberg, won four RIBA Architecture Awards. In 2002 he was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship to study The Environmental Function of Architecture and in 2010 he received the RIBA Annie Spink Award in recognition of his significant contribution to architectural education. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters, D.Litt, by the University of Westminster. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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