Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design

ISBN: 1597260509

Author: Knowles, Ralph

Condition: New

Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USCs School of Architecture, has carefully crafted a book for architects, designers, planners-anyone who yearns to reconnect to the natural world through the built environment. He shows us how to re-examine a shadow, a wall, a window, a landscape, as they respond to the natural cycles of heat, light, wind, and rain. Analyzing methods of sheltering that range from a Berber tent to a Spanish courtyard to the cityscape of contemporary Los Angeles, Ritual House shows us the future: by coining the concept of solar access zoning, he introduces a radical yet increasingly viable solution for tomorrows mega-cities.