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Article: The Selective Mode of Architectural Design. (Book Reviews).(The Selective Environment - An Approach to Environmentally Responsive Architecture)(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2003
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The Selective Environment - An Approach to Environmentally Responsive Architecture, by Dean Hawkes, Jane McDonald and Koen Steemers. Spon Press, London 2002 (our copy from Macmillan Australia, Locked Bag 1400, South Yarra 3141). 164 pp., ill., index. Pbk. Price: $A 97.90.
The Martin Centre of Cambridge University was initiated after Leslie Martin became its professor of architecture. Martin had before that designed the London Festival Hall, the first concert hail in Britain whose design was primarily based on the science of acoustics, and he carried this support for scientific design with him when he went into teaching. The Martin Centre differed, ...