Chapter 1Introduction
The overall aim of this book is to inspire more architects, building services engineers and building scientists to take a creative approach to the design and expression of environmental control systems—whether these systems be active or passive, whether they influence overall building form or design detail.
Author's motivation
My personal motivation comes from having spent half a lifetime at the interface of these three professions. Like many others of my generation, the initial inspiration came from reading Reyner Banham's seminal work on The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment (1969). This was also the year that I joined the staff of Aberdeen's Scott Sutherland School of Architecture as a lecturer in Building ...
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