Building Bad: How Architectural Utility Is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression

by Jonathan Ochshorn

In this book, the author argues that architectural functionality is often constrained by political and economic forces, while it is also effectively undermined by modes of expression. Utilitarian building elements--for example, windows or skylights intended to bring daylight into offices or factories--may be subject to excessive heat gain, thereby coming into conflict with an evolving politics of energy conservation and global warming mitigation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848224664
• ISBN13: 9781848224667
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 232 Pages