The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
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The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment presents the fundamental aspects of the architecture of the well-tempered environment. This book considers what architects had taken to be the proper use and exploitation of mechanical environmental controls, and shows how this had manifested itself in the design of their buildings. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the history of the mechanization of environmental management. This text then explains the accumulation of capital goods and equipment needed to produce a moderate level of civilized culture in pre-technological societies, which requires that building materials be treated as if valuable and permanent. Other chapters consider that it is necessary not only to create habitable environments, but to conserve them. This book discusses as well the kind of technology of environment in the 19th century. The final chapter deals with the liberation of architecture from the ballast of structure. This book is a valuable resource for architects.
Table of Contents
1. Unwarranted Apology
2. Environmental Management
3· A Dark Satanic Century
4· The Kit of Parts: Heat and Light
5. Environments of Large Buildings
6. The Well-Tempered Home
7· The Environment of the Machine Aesthetic
8. Machines à Habiter
9. Towards Full Control
10. Concealed Power
II. Exposed Power
12. A Range of Methods
Readings in Environmental Technology
Photo Credits
Index
Details
- No. of pages:
- 296
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Architectural Press 1969
- Published:
- 1st January 1969
- Imprint:
- Architectural Press
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780851390741
- eBook ISBN:
- 9781483141015
About the Author

Reyner Banham
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