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This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, these essays reach beyond the narrow conventional view of the purely technical to encompass the poetics of architecture, redefining the historiography of environmental design.

Through an assessment of the works of several leading figures throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hawkes deftly shows the growth of environmental awareness and adds a consideration of the qualitative dimension of the environment to the existing, primarily technological, narratives. Essays on earlier buildings highlight the response of pioneering architects to the ¿new¿ technologies of mechanical services and their influence on the form of buildings, while the late twentieth-century design is explored in particular depth to illustrate individual strands of the environmental diversity of modern practice.

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• Preface(p. vi)
• Acknowledgements(p. viii)
• Introduction(p. x)
• Part I From Enlightenment to Modernity(p. 1)
• Essay 1 Soane, Labrouste, Mackintosh: pioneers of environment(p. 3)
• Part II The Twentieth-Century Environment: themes and variations(p. 31)
• Essay 2 Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe: continuity and invention(p. 33)
• Essay 3 The 'other' environmental tradition: Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto(p. 61)
• Essay 4 The poetics of 'served' and 'servant': Louis I. Kahn(p. 87)
• Essay 5 'I wish I could frame the blue of the sky': Carlo Scarpa(p. 111)
• Essay 6 Architecture of adaptive light: Sigurd Lewerentz(p. 129)
• Part III Image and Environment(p. 143)
• Essay 7 The sheltering environment: Fehn and Zumthor(p. 145)
• Essay 8 The art museum: art, environment, imagination - Moneo, Siza, Caruso St John, Zumthor(p. 157)
• Essay 9 Sacred places: Zumthor, Siza, Holl(p. 185)
• Essay 10 Airs, waters, places: Therme Vals(p. 203)
• Selected bibliography(p. 220)
• Index(p. 226)
• Illustration credits(p. 233)

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Dean Hawkes is Emeritus Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Architectural Design at Cardiff University. He is also visiting professor at the Departments of Architecture in the University of Huddersfield and the Chinese University of Hong Kong and honorary visiting professor at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art