Insulating Modernism: Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture

Kiel Moe

Published by Birkhäuser 2014

Insulating Modernism

Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture

Kiel Moe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783038213215

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A critical investigation of insulation

What is the best way to consider energy in buildings? For over a century, the building industry has largely focused on ideas of insulation and isolation for its energetic practices. A growing movement of designers claim that other concepts and practices are required for the non-isolated energy systems of architecture. This book describes the history, theory and facts of the mainstream isolation technologies and the emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material, and design history of building isolation; but more importantly, it is a book on isolated and non-isolated perspectives on energy in architecture. Written by a registered practicing architect with detailed technical knowledge, who is at the same time a researcher and experienced teacher, the aim is to understand the different scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a non-isolated perspective: a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, culturally relevant, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.

State of affairs and alternative models of building insulation
In-depth information on a key planning issue
A scholarly contribution to a hot architectural debate

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Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts, USA

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Buildings are Non-isolated, Transient Structures of Dissipation: A Reckoning in the Form of an Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
A History of Heat Transfer in Buildings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
A Material History of Insulation in Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Physiology, Insulation, Climate, and Pedagogy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
The Architecture of Dissipation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
A Dissipative Epilogue: Breathing Walls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Conclusion: The Metabolic Rift, Gift & Shift of Architecture’s Necessary Excess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Illustration Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index of Buildings and Objects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects in academia and practice with a specific interest in energy savings.
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 70
- Coloured Line drawings: 50

eBook

Published: August 20, 2014
ISBN: 9783038213215

Hardcover

Published: August 22, 2014
ISBN: 9783038215394