Thermal Delight in Architecture (The MIT Press)

by Lisa Heschong (Author)

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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 people use, remember, and care about the thermal environment and how they associate their thermal sense with their other senses. The hearth fire, the sauna, the Roman and Japanese baths, and the Islamic garden are discussed as archetypes of thermal delight about which rituals have developed—reinforcing bonds of affection and ceremony forged in the thermal experience. Not only is thermal symbolism now obsolete but the modern emphasis on central heating systems and air conditioning and hermetically sealed buildings has actually damaged our thermal coping and sensing mechanisms. This book for the solar age could help change all that and open up for us a new dimension of architectural experience.

As the cost of energy continues to skyrocket, alternatives to the use of mechanical force must be developed to meet our thermal needs. A major alternative is the use of passive solar energy, and the book will provide those interested in solar design with a reservoir of ideas.

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Lisa Heschong, a registered architect and principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG) consulting firm in Sacramento California for more than twenty years, did groundbreaking research on energy performance in buildings, daylighting and human factors. She is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and was awarded the 2012 Haecker Award for Architectural Research by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium. She has a Master's in Architecture from MIT, a Bachelor's of Science from University of California, Berkeley, and currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.

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Publisher : The MIT Press (December 5, 1979)
Language : English
Paperback : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 026258039X
ISBN-13 : 978-0262580397
Reading age : 18 years and up
Grade level : 12 and up
Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
Dimensions : 8.02 x 5.33 x 0.3 inches

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Mother dancer

We humans, as sentient beings, live in a world in which temperature is everything!

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This book creates a linguistic and imaginal bridge between the senses and the environment as defined by the thermal state in which beings find themselves. I delighted in the descriptive phrases and the addition of poetry to the text. Short and succinct and fun to read! And I learned so much.

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Peter Baston

AWESOME

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019

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Every Architect or HVAC IAQ IEQ wizard should carry a copy of this thermal bible

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Sana

Very informative

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Was what I was expecting

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timhreha

Quick, engaging read

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A great way to re-orient yourself to think about intelligent design. Technology can certainly solve any problem, but often times it is far simpler/cheaper/easier to plan ahead, think carefully, and use passive strategies to your advantage. Part design, part architecture/building science, part lifestyle/philosophy. Just really enjoyable.

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Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2016

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This quirky book is insanely interesting, as well as very original. After I read it I thought about it for months afterward. Highly recommended.

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The book was very engaging, and it was a short read too!

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Great book

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016

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Great book. Have recommended it to many

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Dad to Miles

Short and very sweet

Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2019

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Missing a discussion on tropical design, but otherwise a very nice hour's read.

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Required Textbook

Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2019

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Fast enough. Poke-sized book. Smaller and thinner than I expected, very handy.

Fazel Ganji

Every HVAC engineer must read it.

Reviewed in Germany on January 1, 2019

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This is a really valuable book. I specifically like the chapter about the circulation of people in a turkish bath and their thermal adventures through the spaces.

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Exactly what I wanted. Thanks

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