Main entry:

Ibelings, Hans, author.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture : a planetary warming history / Hans Ibelings.

Publication:

Montreal ; Amsterdam : The Architecture Observer, [2023]
©2023

Description:

399 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 17 cm

Notes:
"A special thanks to students of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto: Dorottya Kiss (research assistance); and the graduate students in [the] Modern Architecture / Planetary Warming seminar (Fall 2022)..."--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro : industrial revolution, modern architecture, planetary warming. -- Architecture, planet. -- Architecture, climate. -- City, climate. -- Cityscape, landscape. -- Technosphere. -- Architecture, land, water, air, organisms. -- Architecture, ecology. -- Outro : architectural history, ecologically. -- Index. -- Credits.

Summary:

"Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession's collective memory of how modern architecture's history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9789492058164 (softcover)
9492058162

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Building materials Environmental aspects.
Global warming.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Réchauffement de la Terre.
global warming.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 317618
Call No.: 317618
Copy: 1
Status: Available