American Building: the Environmental Forces That Shape It
- List Price: $80.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 3
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
In this superb volume, James Marston Fitch provides a fundamental theory of buildings. "The ultimate task of architecture", he writes, "is to act in favor of human beings: to interpose itself between people and the natural environment in which they find themselves, in such a way as to remove the gross environmental load from their shoulders". Fitch systematically examines the various aspects of the environment which buildings control for human habitation -- air, temperature, light, and sound, even space, time, and gravity. He draws on scientific research to probe deeply into these problems and he sets out the most practical solutions to these and other issues in clear, precise language.
American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It broke new ground in the school of thought now known as "green architecture" -- the philosophy of designing buildings that require a minimum amount of energy and resources to erect and operate. For this new edition, architect William Bobenhausen has included new information on sustainable design and the latest construction technology, up-to-date statistics, case studies, photographs, and illustrations. This revised edition promises to keep this work at the forefront of our thinking about design andthe natural world.
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