Thermal Delight in Architecture
Lisa Heschong • MIT Press • ISBN Not provided
Thermal Delight in Architecture
Lisa Heschong • MIT Press • ISBN-13 9780262580397
ISBN-10 026258039X • 1979
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Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design. Until quite recently, building technology and design has favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal environment. It has not responded to the various ways that
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