Research Catalog

Title

American building : the environmental forces that shape it / James Marston Fitch, with William Bobenhausen.

Author

Fitch, James Marston.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Bobenhausen, William, 1949-

Description

x, 390 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

• Fitch systematically examines the various aspects of the environment that buildings control for human habitation - air, temperature, light, and sound, even space, time, and gravity. He draws on scientific research to probe deeply into.
• James Marston Fitch provides a fundamental theory of buildings.
• Moreover, his analysis runs to the external environment as well, as he explores the impact of buildings on the outside world.
• These problems, and he sets out the most practical solutions to these and other issues in clear, precise language.

Subject

Architecture and society > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-372) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Experiential bases for esthetic decisions -- The social consequences of architectural intervention -- Fair and warmer : control of the thermal environment -- Pure as the air you breathe : control of the atmospheric environment -- "Oh, say, can you see--" : control of the luminous environment -- Silence--men at work : control of the sonic environment -- The architectural manipulation of space, time, and gravity -- Skeleton and skin : the morphological development of structural systems -- The integration of environmental control systems -- Plan : the instrument of policy -- Toward sustainability -- Prospects for the democratic esthetic.

ISBN

0195110404 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98015670^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library