Movement
Climatic / Environmental Modernism
Explore in the Atlas →Mid-twentieth-century strand of modern architecture organised around climate-responsive envelopes and brise-soleil, recovered by Barber.
Climate Tectonics Knowledge
Details
- Origin
- Latin America / USA / international
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ObservationReason
- Subject
- More than human
- Degree of codification
- Highly codifiedPattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Daniel A. Barber associated with
- Reyner Banham associated with
- Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present critiqued
- Critical Regionalism reacted against
- Decolonial / Pluriversal Design opposes
Sources
- Princeton UP. n.d.. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170039/modern-architecture-and-climate.
- Banham, Reyner. The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment. Architectural Press / University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Climatic / Environmental Modernism." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/environmental-modernism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.