Environmental Diversity in Architecture

Edited by Mary Ann Steane, Koen Steemers

List Price: $160.00

ISBN: 978-0-415-31477-0
Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 09/23/2004
Pages: 256
Trim Size: 246X189
Illustrations: 110 half tones, 30 line figures and 12 tables

About the Book

This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each chapter demonstrates how an understanding of a particular context or environmental characteristic in dynamic terms informs design. The book is an antidote to the misconceptions of 'optimum' environmental performance or fixed criteria, instead embracing the richness of environmental variety.

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