#books #architecture | Insulating modernism : isolated and non-isolated thermodynamics in architecture

Insulating modernism : isolated and non-isolated thermodynamics in architecture / Kiel Moe.
Birkhäuser, Basel : 2014.
319 p. : il.
ISBN 9783038215394
Aislamiento térmico.
Arquitectura y economías de energía.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-620.9 INS
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1863303~S1*spi

What is the best way to consider energy in buildings? For over a century, the building industry has largely focused on ideas of insulation and isolation for its energetic practices. A growing movement of designers claim that other concepts and practices are required for the non-isolated energy systems of architecture. The book 'Insulating Modernism. Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture' describes the history, theory and facts of the mainstream isolation technologies and the emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material, and design history of building isolation; but more importantly, it is a book on isolated and non-isolated perspectives on energy in architecture. Written by Kiel Moe, a registered practicing architect with detailed technical knowledge, who is at the same time a researcher and experienced teacher, the aim is to understand the different scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a non-isolated perspective: a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, culturally relevant, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.