Hawkes, Dean

Architecture and climate : an environmental history of British architecture, 1600--2000 / Dean Hawkes - Oxon : Routledge, 2012. - x, 261 p.

Introduction -- Climate described -- Robert Smythson and the environment of the Elizabethan country house -- Christopher Wren and the origins of building science -- Palladianism and the climate of England -- Building in the climate of the nineteenth century city -- The arts and crafts house climatically considered -- The modern movement house in the British climate -- The environmental architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson.

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Architecture and climate--Great Britain--History
Architecture--Environmental aspects--Great Britain--History

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