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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modern architecture and climate
    sub title: design before air conditioning
  name:
    name part: Barber, Daniel A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    place:
      place term: Princeton
    publisher: Princeton University Press
    date issued: [2020]
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 316 σ. : εικ. (μερ. έγχρ.) ; 25 εκ.
  abstract: "Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II-before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available-Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings, and offers a historical foundation for today's zero-carbon design"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Architecture, Media, and Climate -- Part I: The Globalization of the International Style -- Obstacles -- Risks -- Tests -- Part II: The American Acceleration -- Control -- Calculation -- Conditioning -- The Planetary Interior -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits
  note: Daniel A. Barber.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Αρχιτεκτονική και κλίμα
  subject:
    topic: Αρχιτεκτονική, Μοντέρνα
    temporal: 20ός αιώνας
  classification: 724.6
  identifier: 9780691170039
  record info:
    record content source: GR-PaULI
    record creation date: 250217
    record change date: 20250217130047.0
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre