Climatic Architecture: Philippe Rahm Architectes Alberto Pérez-Gómez terminated

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homme engagé et penseur du progrès à l'époque où l'industrialisation transforme profondément la structure des villes et le rapport de l'homme à la nature

and Patrick Templeton evaluates Thomas Heatherwick’s spectacle urbanism

Climatic Architecture: Philippe Rahm Architectes Alberto Pérez-Gómez terminatedArchitecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems,