The Environmental Imagination av Dean Hawkes

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<P><EM>The Environmental Imagination</EM> explores the relationship between <I>tectonics</I> and <I>poetics</I> in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration between poetic <I>intentions</I> and technical <I>means</I>.</P><P></P><P>In a sequence of essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the <I>qualitative</I> dimension of environment is added to the primarily <I>technological</I> narratives of other accounts. In this second edition, the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to include further research conducted i