Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design
By Ralph Knowles
* Publisher: Island Press
* Number Of Pages: 224
* Publication Date: 2006-02-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1597260509
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781597260503

Product Description:
Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USC’s 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 tomorrow’s mega-cities.