The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367537159 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

Dean Hawkes

Opis

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career.

Spis treści

Foreword. Susannah Hagan  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Essay 1. The centre and the periphery: Some reflections on the nature and conduct of architectural research.  Essay 2. The architect and the academy.  Essay 3. The shaping of architectural research.  Essay 4. Bridging the cultures: Architecture, models and computers in 1960s Cambridge.  Essay 5. The environment of the Elizabethan house: Hardwick Hall.  Essay 6. The origins of building science in the architecture of Renaissance England.  Essay 7: The measureable and the unmeasureable of daylight design.  Essay 8. The selective environment: Environmental design and cultural identity.  Essay 9. The technical imagination: Thoughts on the relation of technique and design in architecture.  Essay 10. Typology versus invention: Acoustics and the architecture of music performance.  Essay 11. Musical affinities: Aalto and Kokkonen, Scarpa and Nono.  Bibliography  Index