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0000-0002-2302-5193
Current Organisations
Universität Heidelberg
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University of Technology Sydney
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University of Pennsylvania
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Princeton University
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Publisher: Places Journal
Date: 20-05-2013
DOI: 10.22269/130520
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2021
Abstract: This essay proposes an inversion and productive complication of the familiar nomenclature of active and passive solar energy, as it pertains to architectural design methods and to solarity more generally: that is, to changes in economies, cultures, and ways of living in the present and future. I examine three houses central to the history of solar energy and its possible futures: the George O. Löf House (Denver, CO, 1957) the Douglass Kelbaough House (Princeton, NJ, 1974), and the Saskatchewan Conservation House (Regina, Saskatchewan, 1977) in order to assess the cultural and technical changes they elicited. At stake in reconsidering the distinction between active and passive solar energy is an attempt to understand how we experience simultaneously the resource conditions of our thermal interiors and the transformations of global climatic patterns. Which is to say, reconsidering active and passive in solar architecture (with heat storage as the hinge) also reconsiders the role of buildings in the production of the carbon zero future—less, at least relatively, as spaces of technological innovation, and more as spaces of social and species evolution. An active passive solar architecture aspires to lifestyles, habits, and expectations coming into line with the massive geophysical transformation of climate instability. By emphasizing the contingency of the built environment and of means of inhabitation, the solar house becomes a medium for epochal social change.
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1162/THLD_A_00128
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1162/THLD_A_00287
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.5334/AH.259
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 22-12-2016
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 31-12-2019
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2017
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Abstract: In the years surrounding World War II, solar house heating was seen by many American architects, journal editors, and policymakers as a necessary component of the expansion into suburbia. As the technological and financial aspects of home ownership came to take on broad social implications, design strategies of architectural modernism--including the expansive use of glass, the open plan and façade, and the flexible roof line--were seen as a means to construct suburbs that were responsive to anticipated concerns over materials allocations, over energy-resource scarcity, and over the economic challenges to postwar growth. As this article demonstrates, experiments in passive solar house design were a prominent means for envisioning the suburbs as an opportunity for new kinds of building and new ways of living. The article documents these developments and places them in the context of related efforts to think about the future.
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.17613/K6P7-S571
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: College Art Association
Date: 29-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2016
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Date: 24-03-2020
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2017
Abstract: This essay discusses the emergence of ecodiagrams focused on both representing and operating upon the changing relationship between “man” and “environment,” with an emphasis on the design methods of Hungarian American architects Victor and Aladar Olgyay. The architectural diagram became an important site for reconsidering the parameters of social transformation amid increasing knowledge of the fragility of the global ecological system. Of interest in the Olgyays’ diagrams, even more than the methods they proposed, are the conditions for the human that they imagined.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-01-2017
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