Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements in Architecture repositions ephemeral forces — fire, dust, precipitation, shade, wind — as primary design protagonists, tracing how architects and landscape designers across history have grappled with representing what cannot be seen.
About This Book
Climate is not backdrop; it is material. This book makes that case through the history, theory, and application of climatic design in the built environment, examining how phenomena like bushfires, dust storms, ice, and clouds have shaped architectural thinking across time and geography. Born from a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the National University of Singapore, it draws on contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States to build a genuinely cross-cultural argument. Organised into four elemental categories — Dry, Wet, Cool, and Hot — the book moves from representational theory to exploratory design application, making it essential reading for architects and designers navigating the discipline's urgent turn toward environmental sustainability and climate-responsive design.
Key Features
- 224 pages of historical analysis, representational theory, and illustrated project examples spanning architecture and landscape
- Edited by Daniel J. Ryan, Jennifer Ferng, and Erik G. L'Heureux
- Contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States
- Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN: 9783035623604
What You'll Discover
- How dust storms, clouds, ice, and bushfires have been theorised and drawn as architectural and landscape forces across different historical periods
- A four-part organisational framework — Dry, Wet, Cool, Hot — that structures a wide range of representational approaches to climatic phenomena
- The intellectual stakes of the University of Sydney and National University of Singapore collaboration, bringing Southern Hemisphere and Southeast Asian perspectives into climate discourse
- Project examples in the concluding section that demonstrate how climatic drawing techniques translate into exploratory architectural design proposals
About the Author
The volume is edited by Daniel J. Ryan, Jennifer Ferng, and Erik G. L'Heureux, and brings together contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States. The project emerged from a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the National University of Singapore. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035623604
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and landscape designers working in climate-responsive design, academics and students in environmental and sustainable architecture, and practitioners seeking a historically grounded and visually rigorous framework for representing climatic forces.