Insulating modernism : : isolated and non-isolated thermodynamics in architecture / / Kiel Moe.

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Place / Publishing House:Basel ;, Boston : : Birkhauser,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (319 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
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Table of Contents:
  • Buildings are non-isolated, transient structures of dissipation : a reckoning in the form of an introduction
  • A history of heat transfer in buildings
  • A material history of insulation in modernity
  • Physiology, insulation, climate, and pedagogy
  • The architecture of dissipation
  • A dissipative epilogue : breathing walls / by Salmaan Craig
  • Conclusion : the metabolic rift, gift & shift of architecture's necessary excess.