The natural history of architecture
Philippe Rahm: The natural history of architecture. How climate, epidemics and energy have shaped cities and buildings.
BOOK LAUNCH DISCUSSION
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"The Natural History of Architecture draws on the urbanist and architectural theories and practices of the Western world, but illuminates them from climate, health and energy perspectives that are the duty of our time to explore."
"The origin and development of architecture can always be traced back to some natural, physical, biological, health or climatic aspect. Even today, solutions that seem to have been forgotten, such as wind towers in Iran for ventilation, granaries for storage, ice-houses near Arles for conservation, and lazarets for quarantine, are still being discovered."
They will be interlocutors:
Melinda Benkő habil PhD urban architect, Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism, BME, translator and publisher of the book
Péter Haba PhD art historian, Associate Professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary
Szabó Árpád DLA architect, urban planner, head of the Department of Urban Studies at the BME
Piroska Varga DLA architect, architectural engineer, chief designer of Grafit Műterem Kft., vice-president of the Budapest Chamber of Architects