Dean Hawkes (UK University of Cambridge)

The Environmental Imagination

Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fully revised in this new edition, Dean Hawkes incorporates new research and recent scholarship in environmental studies to assess the works of several leading figures throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 246mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9781138628984
• ISBN-10: 1138628980
• Artikelnr.: 58381664

Autorenporträt

Dean 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication. 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.