Screen LibraryDesign with climate : bioclimatic approach to architectural regionalism /
"First published in 1963, Design with Climate was a groundbreaking book in the field of environmentally responsible design and remains an important reference for practitioners, teachers, and students over fifty years later. In this book, Victor Olgyay explores the impact of climate on shelter d...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | New and expanded edition. |
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| Summary: |
"First published in 1963, Design with Climate was a groundbreaking book in the field of environmentally responsible design and remains an important reference for practitioners, teachers, and students over fifty years later. In this book, Victor Olgyay explores the impact of climate on shelter design, identifying four distinct climatic regions and explaining the effect of each on orientation, air movement, site, and materials. He derives principles from biology, engineering, meteorology, and physics, and demonstrates how an analytical approach to cliamte management can merge into a harmonious and humanistic design approach. This updated edition contains four new essays that provide unique insights on issues of cliamte design, showing how Olgyay's concepts work in contemporary practice. Donlyn Lyndon, Victor W. Olgyay, John Reynolds, and Ken Yeang explore bioclimatic design, eco design, and rational regionalism, while paying homage to Olgyay's impressive groundwork and contributions to the field of architecture"--Back cover. |
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Originally published in 1963. "2015 edition"--Page v. |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 190 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm x 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691169736 069116973X |
| Index Number: | NA2540 |
| CLC: | TU-023 |
| Call Number: | TU-023/O459 |
| Contents: | General introduction -- The bioclimatic approach -- Regional evaluation -- Climatic elements -- Site selection -- Sol-air orientation -- Solar control -- Environment and building forms -- Wind effects and air flow patterns -- Thermal effects of materials -- Heliothermic planning -- Examples in four regions. |