Thermal Delight in Architecture

Name: Thermal Delight in Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262580397

ISBN-10: 026258039X

ISBN-13: 9780262580397

Edition: 1979

Authors: Lisa Heschong

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Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design. Until quite recently, building technology and design has favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal environment. It has not responded to the various ways that people use, remember, and care about the thermal environment and how they associate their thermal sense with their other senses. The hearth fire, the sauna, the Roman and Japanese baths, and the Islamic garden are discussed as archetypes of thermal delight about which rituals…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/5/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Lisa Heschong is an architect, a partner of the Heschong Mahone Group, an architectural research firm, and the author of Thermal Delight in Architecture.