Weather Architecture

Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Recognising the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user, this book investigates architecture's relations to the weather and climate within a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture.

An architect and architectural historian, Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003) and Immaterial Architecture (2006), editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture--the Subject is Matter (2001), and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).

Introduction 1. Things of a Natural Kind 2. The Seasons of A Life 3. A Life in Ruins 4. The Garden of Architecture 5. Pigments and Pollution 6. The Weather of Our Houses 7. Submitting to the Seasons 8. Fog, Glare and Gloom 9. Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures