Atmosphere Anatomies: On Design, Weather and Sensation
Published & Award-Winning | 2021 | Zürich, Switzerland | Lars Müller Publishers
How will the human body, collective and individual, cope with the estimated increases in global air temperatures and in the earth’s corresponding thermal stress? Atmosphere Anatomies: On Design, Weather, and Sensation offers an in-depth examination of design strategies that situate the body and its bioclimatic milieu at the core of their spatial formation.
Drawing upon ten paradigmatic projects in urban design and landscape architecture – from Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, to the city of Chandigarh in India – the book investigates the designers’ bioclimatic aims and their spatial outcomes through the lens of thermodynamic interactions. Woven throughout the book, the evocative photographic essays of Iwan Baan showcase the selected projects as inhabited spaces for everyday life.
“an ambitious collection of essays that proposes a new framework for understanding landscape design.” – Landscape Architecture Magazine
Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize for Architectural Innovation and Sustainability from the Portuguese League of Architects and Ministry of Environment and Climate Action, 2021
“It is rare - and always thrilling - to discover a book that makes us think differently about architecture, by helping us to understand hitherto inscrutable aspects of it.” – Alice Rawsthorn
“Through the detailed study of a series of seminal projects Silvia Benedito brilliantly demonstrates that atmospheres can actually be described and interpreted with great precision. In a time of environmental anxiety, her call for a paradigmatic shift centered on the atmospheric opens new and important perspectives for the design disciplines.” - Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Photos by Iwan Baan
Date: Dezember 2021
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