The Environmental Imagination
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| ISBN13: | 9781138628977 |
| ISBN10: | 1138628972 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 316 pages |
| Size: | 246x189 mm |
| Weight: | 1088 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 208 Illustrations, black & white; 126 Halftones, black & white; 82 Line drawings, black & white |
| 162 |
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.
The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration between poetic intentions and technical means.
In a sequence of essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the qualitative dimension of environment is added to the primarily technological narratives of other accounts. In this second edition, the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to include further research conducted in the decade since the first edition. A number of important buildings have been revisited, in order to extend the descriptions of their environments, and studies have been made of a number of newly studied, significant buildings. A completely new essay offers an environmental interpretation of Luis Barragán?s magical own house in Mexico City and the earlier studies of buildings by Peter Zumthor have been gathered into a single, extended essay that includes a body of new research. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Reyner Banham?s, The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the book concludes with a critical tribute to that seminal text.
The Environmental Imagination will appeal to academics and practitioners with interests in the history, theory and technology of architecture.
"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
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.
