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Architecture from Prehistory to Climate Emergency

Architecture from Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Penguin Random House UK, 2021; paperback edition 2022) by Barnabas Calder tells the ‘energy story of architecture’.

 

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Architecture from Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Penguin Random House UK, 2021; paperback edition 2022) by Barnabas Calder tells the ‘energy story of architecture’.

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today’s skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent never explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.
In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China’s booming megacities. He reveals how every building – from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house – was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.
Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent architecture, and to retrofit – not demolish – the buildings we already have.
– Barnabas Calder, Architecture from Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Penguin Random House UK, 2021), book description from the publisher’s website

The text is in English. The book has been illustrated with some black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.

Weight 627 g
Dimensions 14,3 × 14,3 × 3,7 cm
Author(s)

Barnabas Calder

Publisher

Pelican Books, Penguin Random House UK

Publishing year

2021, 2022

Language

Images

architectural drawings, b&w photos

Binding

Paperback, Hardcover

Condition

Number of pages

547

ISBN

978-0-241-39673-5, 978-0-141-97829-8