Climatic Architecture

Philippe Rahm architectes

Philippe Rahm

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Actar Publishers
01 April 2024

Individual architects & architectural firms

This book is about climate and architecture. Written by the Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, it is at the same time a monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office 'Philippe Rahm architectes', a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming, and a theoretical and practical treatise on the art of building atmospheres.

Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems, pumps and refrigerators, that today cause the greenhouse effect and global warming.

The fight against climate change forces the architects and urban designer to take back seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on more consideration to the local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, we propose to reset our discipline on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognised are real materials of building, convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, or effusivity are becoming design tools for composing architecture and cities, and through materialism dialectic, are able to revolutionize esthetic and social values.

By: Philippe Rahm
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 200mm,
ISBN: 9781638400394
ISBN 10: 1638400393
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect, principal in the office of ""Philippe Rahm architectes"", based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. His recent work includes the first prize for the Farini competition (60 ha) in Milan in 2019, the 70 hectares Central Park in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in December 2020. He has held professorships at GSD Harvard University, Columbia, Cornell or Princeton Universities. He is a tenured associate professor at the National Superior School of Architecture in Versailles, France (ENSA-V). In 2020, he is the curator and author of the exhibition and book ""Natural History of Architecture"" at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris. Links Actar Publishers is committed to investigating the culture of the architectural, urbanism and landscape disciplines through inno

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"""""Climatic Architecture"" is about climate and its impact on architecture. Informatively written by the Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, ""Climatic Architecture"" is a informative monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office ""Philippe Rahm architectes"", as well as a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming, and a theoretical and practical treatise on the art of building atmospheres. This large format (8.1 x 1.3 x 12.5 inches, 3.05 pounds) hardcover edition of ""Climatic Architecture"" is highly recommended fore personal, professional, community, and college/university library Contemporary Architectural Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists."" --Midwest Book Review"