Explores the relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. This book includes essays on buildings which highlight the response of pioneering architects to various technologies of mechanical services and their influence on the form of building[...]
This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental influe[...]