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1. Architecture and Climate

   An Environmental History of British Architecture 1600–2000

   By Dean Hawkes

   This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Environmental Imagination

   Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

   By Dean Hawkes

   This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, these essays reach beyond...

   Published August 7th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
3. The Selective Environment

   By Dean Hawkes, with Jane McDonald, Koen Steemers

   The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an approach to environmentally responsive...

   Published November 21st 2001 by Taylor & Francis
4. The Environmental Tradition

   Studies in the architecture of environment

   By Dr Dean Hawkes, Dean Hawkes

   This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with the transformation of the environmental design field which was...

   Published December 13th 1995 by Taylor & Francis