City, Climate and Architecture reframes climate control not as a mechanical problem but as an urban one, tracing how the relationship between buildings and city climate was theorised and contested across the 20th century. Its argument is structural: that indoor and outdoor environments must be designed together to meaningfully reduce thermal loads in cities.
About This Book
The result of six years of research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, this book builds a historical and ecological case for rethinking how architecture responds to urban climate. Sascha Roesler organises the argument in two parts: the first examines the interwar period in Europe, when architects and planners first began to grapple seriously with city-scale climate phenomena; the second extends the inquiry globally, tracing the rise of ecological thinking in urban design across diverse geographical contexts. For architects, urban designers, and researchers working at the intersection of climate-responsive design and the built environment, this is a substantive reference grounded in primary scholarship rather than sustainable design rhetoric.
Key Features
- 276 pages of historically grounded analysis, case studies, and ecological urbanism research spanning European and global contexts
- Author: Sascha Roesler
- Published by Birkhäuser, ISBN 9783035629460
What You'll Discover
- How the interwar period in Europe produced foundational thinking on urban climate and its relationship to architectural design
- Why the indoor/outdoor boundary is a critical variable in managing thermal loads at the city scale, not just the building scale
- How ecological thinking gradually transformed the discipline of urban environmental design across different global contexts throughout the 20th century
- The trajectory of a six-year research programme into architecture and urban climate, presented as a cohesive historical and projective argument
About the Author
Sascha Roesler led a six-year research project on architecture and urban climate supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. This publication represents the primary scholarly outcome of that research.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 276
- Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035629460
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urban designers working on climate-responsive projects, researchers in architectural history and ecological urbanism, and academics engaged with the built environment's role in urban heat and thermal comfort.