Insulating Modernism

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Author: Kiel MoeThis book describes the history and theory of mainstream isolation technologies and emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material , and design history of building isolation. Written by an architect-researcher with detailed technical knowledge, the aim is to understand scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.ISBN 9783038215394. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 320 pages. 24 x 17 cm. 120 colour ills.available Show more