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Architecture

- From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
Af: Barnabas Calder Engelsk Paperback

Architecture

- From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
Af: Barnabas Calder Engelsk Paperback
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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today''s skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn''t been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China''s booming megacities. He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.

Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world''s greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent buildings, and to retrofit - not demolish - those that remain. Both a celebration of human ingenuity and a passionate call for greater sustainability, this is a history of architecture for our times.

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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today''s skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn''t been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China''s booming megacities. He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.

Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world''s greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent buildings, and to retrofit - not demolish - those that remain. Both a celebration of human ingenuity and a passionate call for greater sustainability, this is a history of architecture for our times.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 576
ISBN-13: 9780141978208
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141978201
Kategori: Arkitekturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 29 sep 2022
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 112mm
Højde: 180mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 29 sep 2022
Forfatter(e): Barnabas Calder
Forfatter(e) Barnabas Calder

Kategori Arkitekturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780141978208

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 576

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 112mm

Højde 180mm

Udg. Dato 29 sep 2022

Oplagsdato 29 sep 2022

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd