The architect and the academy : essays on research and environment /

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive fifty-year academic career. The book is structured in two thematic parts, The Nature and Practice of Architectural Research and The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawkes, Dean (Author)
Other Authors: Hagan, Susannah (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Series:Routledge research in architecture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Centre and the Periphery: some reflections on the nature and conduct of architectural research
  • The Architect and the Academy
  • The Shaping of Architectural Research: transatlantic transactions
  • Bridging the Cultures: architecture, models and computers in 1960s Cambridge
  • The Environment of the Elizabethan House: Hardwick Hall
  • The Origins of Building Science in the Architecture of Renaissance England
  • The Measureable and the Unmeasureable of Daylight Design
  • The Selective Environment: environmental design and cultural identity
  • The Technical Imagination: thoughts on the relation of technique and design in architecture
  • Typology versus Invention: acoustics and the architecture of music performance
  • Musical Affinities: Aalto and Kokkonen, Scarpa and Nono.