The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

Author:   Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415360869


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 January 2019
Replaced By:   9781138628977
Format:   Hardback
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The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment


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This new book from a well-regarded and established author explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, these essays reach beyond the narrow conventional view of the purely technical to encompass the poetics of architecture, thus redefining the historiography of environmental design. Through an assessment of the works of several leading figures throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hawkes deftly shows the growth of environmental awareness and adds a consideration of the qualitative dimension of the environment to the existing, primarily technological, narratives. Essays on earlier buildings highlight the response of pioneering architects to the 'new' technologies of mechanical services and their influence on the form of buildings, while the late twentieth-century design are explored in particular depth to illustrate individual strands of the environmental diversity of modern practice.

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Author:   Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9780415360869


ISBN 10:   0415360862
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9781138628977
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Design at Cardiff University, is also visiting professor at the Departments of Architecture in the University of Huddersfield and Singapore and Honorary Professor at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. In 2002 he was awarded the Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship to study 'The Environmental Function of Architecture'. He has had several books published, including The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the architecture of environment and The Selective Environment: An approach to environmentally responsive architecture, both published by Routledge.

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