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Insulating modernism: isolated and non-isolated thermodynamics in architecture

By Kiel , Moe

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser
Year
2014
ISBN
9783038215394, 3038215392
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20174160 bytes)
Pages
1 vol. (319 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul., couv.
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Architecture and energy conservation;Architecture

Description

Buildings are non-isolated, transient structures of dissipation : a reckoning in the form of an introduction -- A history of heat transfer in buildings -- A material history of insulation in modernity -- Physiology, insulation, climate, and pedagogy -- The architecture of dissipation -- A dissipative epilogue : breathing walls / by Salmaan Craig -- Conclusion : the metabolic rift, gift & shift of architecture's necessary excess.

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