The Idea of Building

by Steven Groak

• ISBN13: 9780442316303
• ISBN10: 0442316305
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-11
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Preliminaries	p. 1
The Flight from Equilibrium	p. 13
Buildings as Unstable Systems in Dynamic Environments	p. 15
Flows of Matter and Energy	p. 21
Uncertainty in the Industrial Environment	p. 41
The Decline of Technical Precedent	p. 47
The Social Demand for Buildings	p. 51
Interlude: Thin Cities 4	p. 59
Some Polemical Remarks	p. 61
Building Knowledge and Building Experience	p. 65
Historical Concepts of Building Science	p. 67
Further Reading	p. 73
The Analysis of Sensations	p. 75
The Analysis of Energy	p. 89
Building Engineering	p. 93
Building Pathology and Its Lessons	p. 105
Further Reading	p. 112
Intelligent Buildings and Intelligent Sites	p. 113
Further Reading	p. 120
The Building Process	p. 121
Systems and Conventions	p. 131
Further Reading	p. 136
What Industry Follows Function?	p. 137
Representation and Regularity	p. 149
Further Reading	p. 160
Technology Transfer	p. 163
Who Is the Builder?	p. 173
Further Reading	p. 176
The Idea of Technology, and Its Critics	p. 177
Another Critical Position	p. 185
The Typical Detail	p. 187
Further Reading	p. 189
Building Details in Structure and Form	p. 191
Further Reading	p. 206
The Buildings of Alvar Aalto	p. 207
Inconclusion	p. 237
Author Index	p. 239
Subject Index	p. 243
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