Form Follows Fuel by Florian Urban

Form Follows Fuel by Florian Urban

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Form Follows Fuel by Florian Urban

This book is the first to quantify energy inputs for a range of buildings worldwide and across the historical record. It consists of 14 accessibly-written case studies and is an important contribution to architectural historical research, written for academics and building professionals as well as for a general audience.

Florian Urban is an architectural historian, Professor, and Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies (HAUS) at the Glasgow School of Art. He was born and raised in Germany, and holds an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from MIT. He is the author, among others, of the books Neo-historical East Berlin – Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970–1990 (2009), Tower and Slab – Histories of Global Mass Housing (2012), The New Tenement – Architecture in the Inner City since 1970 (2018), and Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland – Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (2021). @florianurban.bsky.social

Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture and Head of the History of Architecture Research Cluster at the University of Liverpool. He specialises in the relationship between architecture and energy throughout human history. He also works on British architecture since 1945, and on the intersections between energy systems and human culture. He is the author of Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (2016) and Architecture: From Pre-history to Climate Emergency (2021). @barnabascalder.bsky.social, Insta: @BarnabasCalder, #ArchitectureAndEnergy

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ISBN 13 9781032636542
ISBN 10 1032636548
Title Form Follows Fuel
Author Florian Urban
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2025-09-09
Number of pages 288
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