Expanded & revised survey of the impact of innovations in building mechanical services on European & American Modern architecture.
Although widely used as a history of building mechanical services in the late 19th. & early 20th. centuries this was not Banham’s intention; that book has yet to be written.
Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment – Second edition
Published by University of Chicago Press
(1984 ISBN: 0-226-03697-9 hard cover)
(1984 ISBN: 0-226-03698-7 paperback)
The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment
Australian reprint by Steensen Varming
(2004 ISBN: 0-85139-749-2 sort of authorised – 200 copies ‘accidently’ became 2000)
The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment
Australian reprint by Steensen Varming
(2008 ISBN: 0-85139-749-2 authorised – different covers from 2004)
l’architecture de l’environment bien tempéré
French translation published by Éditions HYX
(2008 ISBN: 978-2-910385-67-5)