Publisher: Actar Publishers, ISBN: 9781638400394, Author: Philippe Rahm, Format: Hardcover, 20.57 x 3.3 x 31.75 cm, 360pp

The fight against climate change now compels architects and urban designers to seriously reconsider climatic factors in their designs, from local climate considerations to the use of energy resources. In the face of the climate crisis, Philippe Rahm proposes resetting the discipline of architecture to focus on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities. Air, light, heat, and humidity are real building materials, and convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, and effusivity should become design tools for shaping architecture and cities. Rahm believes that through dialectical materialism, it is possible to revolutionise aesthetic and social values.